Jsonnet – A data templating language
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Jsonnet – A data templating language
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Re: Jsonnet – A data templating language
#2No thanks I'll just write JavaScript
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#3No thanks I'll just write JavaScript
Exactly my thoughts. I don’t see how it’s better than JS or TypeScript. I can render any object into JSON.
This is in fact how I manage Kubernetes manifests.
I use this package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/kubernetes-models
Then I write normal TypeScript code to create Kubernetes objects/resources.
Then I render it to JSON and feed to kubectl.
The beauty of this solution is that it’s OOP and DRY.
Re: Jsonnet – A data templating language
#4No thanks I'll just write JavaScript
This should be the first thing on the website: “why use this and not plain Js”.
I read everything and I still don’t understand why.
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#5We have just had an article hitting nearly the top on not to use JSON for config https://arp242.net/weblog/json_as_configuration_files-_pleas...
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#6This looks like a public version of gcl/borgcfg... But with JavaScript mixed in (so even worse, if that was possible)
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#7We have just had an article hitting nearly the top on not to use JSON for config https://arp242.net/weblog/json_as_configuration_files-_pleas...
That's the reason I posted this, since this is kind of using, without the drawbacks (of not having comments etc)
I wonder if folks had had experience using it for kubernetes configs like https://jsonnet.org/articles/kubernetes.html
Re: Jsonnet – A data templating language
#8Considering how easy it is to run Javascript anywhere, even small inline statements interpreted dynamically, I can't think of a single reason to use this instead.
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#9Some devs from my company just recently published https://jkcfg.github.io/, building on lessons learned from many years of configuring Kubernetes. Since we are discussing JS for config management.
Re: Jsonnet – A data templating language
#10Why would I use this over, say, Jinja?
Do I really want imperative code in my config files? And if so, why not just use vanilla JS?