SmolYAML is a minimalistic parser for YAML-like data.
YAML is a complex spec.
An npm install yaml weighs about 100kb of minified JavaScript.
SmolYAML is used in a static site generator that tries tries to be as minimalistic as possible. That static site generator depends on YAML for parsing frontmatter, a block of meta data in template files. But including the full YAML implementation would quite bloat it.
SmolYAML tries to address that by implementing only a small subset of the specification. To be fair, it's an opinionated one that is (opinionatedly) considered good enough to parse frontmatter meta data.
In roughly 2KB of minified JavaScript.
npm i @sissijs/smolyaml
import { smolYAML } from '@sissijs/smolyaml';
const metadata = `
name: Lea
description: Lea is a Web Developer
age: 42
details:
frontend: She loves doing Front of the Frontend work
fullstack: But she really hates being called a fullstack developer
`
console.log(smolYAML(metadata));