Json Consolidator

json-consolidator is an extension that helps to edit similarly structured json files. Especially handy for i18n files. At the moment supported and tested only on 1-dimensional (flat) json files.

Installation

Download vsix file from VS Code Marketplace Or
Search for Exxend.json-consolidator in Extensions tab of VS Code

Features

Edit simultaneously multiple json files
Search along the opened files
Validation of json keys on save
Filter by items in error

Trigger extension

To open editor window of json-consolidator you just need to right click on target foldet containing json files and select Json Consolidator - Editor. Extension will automatically scan for all json files present and display them in editor. Since originally extensions is developed to edit i18n files, default directories where extension could be triggered are i18n and locales, it could be changed be means of extension configuration keys.

Configuration

This extension contributes the following settings:

json-consolidator.orderKeysOnSave - default true - Controls wether json file keys should be ordered on save
json-consolidator.orderKeysDirection - default Ascending - Ordering direction of json keys
json-consolidator.triggerEverywhere - default false - Controls wether extension could be triggered from any directory, if false triggered only at json-consolidator.supportedDirectories
json-consolidator.supportedDirectories - default [ "i18n", "locales" ] - Names of directories where extension could be triggered
json-consolidator.targetEditorWindow - default Two - Controls in what tab editor should be opened
json-consolidator.suppressInitNotification - default false -Controls wether initialization notification is shown during vscode startup

Known Issues

Extension does not keep track if files that are currently under edit were modified externally.
Each time you hit save - all files will be overwritten.
Not tested on large json files

Tip: always use json-consolidator with files insige git repo, or make sure to have backups of the files. Even though no issues of losing data were reported - it won't hurt to be more safe!

Credits

Inspired by vsce-i18n-json-editor