Here’s a complete guide with code samples showing how to parse JSONC (JSON withComments) in JavaScript/Node.js, Pythonand Go, along with notes on available tooling support in each ecosystem.

🧩 What is JSONC?

JSONC (JSON with Comments) is an extension of JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) that allows comments (using // or /* */), making it more human-readable — useful for configuration files.
However, standard JSON parsers do not accept comments, so special handling is needed.

🚀 1. JavaScript / Node.js

✅ Tooling Support:

jsonc-parser (from Microsoft) — widely used, supports parsing and formatting.
VS Code uses jsonc-parser internally for .jsonc files.

💻 Install:

npm install jsonc-parser

🧠 Example Code:

// parse-jsonc.js
import { parse } from 'jsonc-parser';

const jsoncText = `
{
  // This is a comment
  "name": "ChatGPT",
  "version": 5,
  /* multi-line comment */
  "features": ["AI", "Chat", "Knowledge"]
}
`;

const data = parse(jsoncText);
console.log(data);

🧾 Output:

{
  "name": "ChatGPT",
  "version": 5,
  "features": ["AI", "Chat", "Knowledge"]
}

✅ Note:
You can also strip comments manually using libraries like strip-json-comments:

import fs from 'fs';
import stripJsonComments from

 'strip-json-comments';

const fileData = fs.readFileSync

('config.jsonc', 'utf8');
const cleanJson = stripJsonComments(fileData);
const data = JSON.parse(cleanJson);

🐍 2. Python

✅ Tooling Support:

commentjson – a drop-in replacement for json that supports comments.
json5 – also parses JSON with comments and trailing commas.

💻 Install:

pip install commentjson

🧠 Example Code:

# parse_jsonc.py
import commentjson

jsonc_text = """
{
    // Single-line comment
    "language": "Python",
    "supports": ["JSON", "JSONC"],
    /* Multi-line
       comment */
    "version": 3.11
}
"""

data = commentjson.loads(jsonc_text)
print(data)

🧾 Output:

{'language': 'Python', 'supports':

 ['JSON', 'JSONC'], 'version': 3.11}

✅ Alternative using json5:

import json5
data = json5.loads(jsonc_text)

🐹 3. Go (Golang)

✅ Tooling Support:

Go’s standard library encoding/json does not support comments.
Use libraries like:
- jsonc (github.com/tidwall/jsonc)
- github.com/muhammadmuzzammil1998/jsonc

💻 Install:

go get github.com/tidwall/jsonc

🧠 Example Code:

// parse_jsonc.go
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/tidwall/jsonc"
    "encoding/json"
)

func main() {
    jsoncData := `
    {
        // JSONC example
        "language": "Go",
        "version": 1.23,
        /* Comment block */
        "features": ["Fast", "Concurrent"]
    }`

    // Remove comments
    clean := jsonc.ToJSON(jsoncData)

    var data map[string]interface{}
    json.Unmarshal([]byte(clean), &data)

    fmt.Println(data)
}

🧾 Output:

map[language:Go version:1.23 features

:[Fast Concurrent]]

🧰 🧠 Key Takeaways

JSONC is not officially part of the JSON standard but enhances readability.
Ideal for configuration files where comments help documentation.
Before parsing, JSONC text must have its comments removed or ignored by a compatible parser.
Native JSON parsers (like JSON.parse, json.loads, encoding/json) will fail if comments are present.

Examples for writing JSONC back to files (serialization) in these languages too?

Perfect ✅ — here are examples for writing (serializing) JSONC data back to files in
JavaScript/Node.js, Python, and Go, along with notes on tooling that supports writing JSONC safely (preserving comments when possible).

🚀 1. JavaScript / Node.js — Write JSONC to File

✅ Tooling Support:

jsonc-parser can modify JSONC text while preserving comments.
strip-json-comments + JSON.stringify can be used to save plain JSON (comments lost).

💻 Install:

npm install jsonc-parser

🧠 Example Code (Preserving Comments):

// write-jsonc.js
import fs from 'fs';
import { modify, applyEdits } from

'jsonc-parser';

const jsoncText = `
{
  // Configuration for ChatGPT
  "model": "GPT-5",
  "temperature": 0.8
}
`;

// Add a new property to the existing

JSONC while preserving comments
const edits = modify(jsoncText,

 ['max_tokens'], 2048,

{ formattingOptions: { insertSpaces:

true, tabSize: 2 } });
const updatedText = applyEdits

(jsoncText, edits);

// Write back to file
fs.writeFileSync('config.jsonc',

updatedText, 'utf8');
console.log('✅ config.jsonc

 updated successfully!');

🧾 Resulting config.jsonc:

{
  // Configuration for ChatGPT
  "model": "GPT-5",
  "temperature": 0.8,
  "max_tokens": 2048
}

🧩 If you don’t need to preserve comments:

const fs = require('fs');
const data = {
  name: 'ChatGPT',
  version: 5,
  features: ['AI', 'Chat', 'Knowledge']
};

fs.writeFileSync('data.jsonc',

JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));

🐍 2. Python —

Write JSONC to File

✅ Tooling Support:

commentjson can dump JSONC with comments, but you must include them manually as part of the string.
json5 can serialize JSON5/JSONC-like data (with optional comments manually added).

💻 Example Code:

# write_jsonc.py
import commentjson

data = {
    "name": "ChatGPT",
    "version": 5,
    "languages": ["Python", "JavaScript", "Go"]
}

# Serialize to JSON (comments must

be added manually)
json_text = commentjson.dumps(data, indent=2)

# Add a comment line manually
jsonc_output = f"// Example JSONC

output\n{json_text}"

with open("data.jsonc", "w") as f:
    f.write(jsonc_output)

print("✅ data.jsonc written successfully!")

🧾 Output (data.jsonc):

// Example JSONC output
{
  "name": "ChatGPT",
  "version": 5,
  "languages": [
    "Python",
    "JavaScript",
    "Go"
  ]
}

🧠 Note: There is no automated Python library that preserves comments round-trip, so comments are usually inserted manually.

🐹 3. Go (Golang) — Write JSONC to File

✅ Tooling Support:

Go libraries like tidwall/jsonc strip comments during parsing, so you’ll need to reinsert them manually.
You can write regular JSON and prepend comments.

💻 Example Code:

// write_jsonc.go
package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    data := map[string]interface{}{
        "app":    "ChatGPT",
        "version": 5,
        "features": []string{"AI",

"Chat", "Knowledge"},
    }

    jsonBytes, _ := json.MarshalIndent

(data, "", "  ")

    // Add JSONC-style comment manually
    jsoncOutput := "// Example JSONC

configuration\n" + string(jsonBytes)

    os.WriteFile("config.jsonc",

 []byte(jsoncOutput), 0644)
    fmt.Println("✅ config.jsonc

 written successfully!")
}

🧾 Output (config.jsonc):

// Example JSONC configuration
{
  "app": "ChatGPT",
  "version": 5,
  "features": [
    "AI",
    "Chat",
    "Knowledge"
  ]
}

🧰

🧠 Key Tips

Round-trip editing (preserve + modify + write) is easiest in Node.js via jsonc-parser.
Python and Go lack native comment-preserving JSONC writers; treat comments as plain text.
For config files, consider storing templates (.jsonc) and modifying them using string operations if preserving comments matters.

A practical real-world example (like editing a settings.jsonc config file for an app) using all three languages next?

Excellent ✅ — let’s build a real-world JSONC configuration editing example in
JavaScript (Node.js), Python, and Go, showing how to:

Load a .jsonc configuration file with comments.
Modify a setting (e.g., theme or autoSave).
Write it back while keeping the original comments intact (where possible).

⚙️ Example Scenario — `settings.jsonc`

We’ll use this same JSONC file for all languages:

{
  // Application display settings
  "theme": "light",

  // Auto-save interval in minutes
  "autoSave": 10,

  /* Enable experimental features */
  "experimental": false
}

Our goal:
✅ Change "theme" to "dark"
✅ Change "experimental" to true
✅ Save back the updated file

🚀 1. JavaScript / Node.js — Best for True JSONC Preservation

✅ Tool: `jsonc-parser`

Maintains formatting + comments automatically.

💻 Install:

npm install jsonc-parser

🧠 Code: `editSettings.js`

import fs from "fs";
import { modify, applyEdits }

from "jsonc-parser";

const filePath = "settings.jsonc";

// Read original JSONC file
const jsoncText = fs.readFileSync

(filePath, "utf8");

// Change "theme" to "dark"
let edits = modify(jsoncText,

 ["theme"], "dark",

{ formattingOptions:

{ insertSpaces: true, tabSize: 2 } });
let updatedText = applyEdits

(jsoncText, edits);

// Update "experimental" to true
edits = modify(updatedText,

["experimental"], true,

{ formattingOptions:

 { insertSpaces: true, tabSize: 2 } });
updatedText = applyEdits(updatedText, edits);

// Save updated JSONC back
fs.writeFileSync(filePath,

updatedText, "utf8");

console.log("✅ settings.jsonc

updated successfully!");

🧾 Result (`settings.jsonc`):

{
  // Application display settings
  "theme": "dark",

  // Auto-save interval in minutes
  "autoSave": 10,

  /* Enable experimental features */
  "experimental": true
}

🧠 Preserves all comments — the cleanest approach.

🐍 2. Python — Simple, but Manual Comment Handling

✅ Tool: `commentjson`

Reads JSONC but cannot auto-preserve comments; we’ll handle them manually.

💻 Install:

pip install commentjson

🧠 Code: `edit_settings.py`

import commentjson

file_path = "settings.jsonc"

# Read JSONC text
with open(file_path, "r") as f:
    jsonc_text = f.read()

# Parse ignoring comments
data = commentjson.loads(jsonc_text)

# Modify values
data["theme"] = "dark"
data["experimental"] = True

# Serialize back (comments will

be added manually)
json_output = commentjson.dumps

(data, indent=2)
final_output = """// Application

configuration (Python updated)\n"""

+ json_output

# Write back
with open(file_path, "w") as f:
    f.write(final_output)

print("✅ settings.jsonc updated

successfully!")

🧾 Result:

// Application configuration (Python updated)
{
  "theme": "dark",
  "autoSave": 10,
  "experimental": true
}

⚠️ Note: Original inline comments are lost — Python doesn’t preserve them automatically.

🐹 3. Go — Manual Comment Re-Insertion

✅ Tool: `tidwall/jsonc` (for parsing JSONC)

Go’s native encoding/json is used for writing, with comment reinsertion by string concatenation.

💻 Install:

go get github.com/tidwall/jsonc

🧠 Code: `edit_settings.go`

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "os"
    "github.com/tidwall/jsonc"
)

func main() {
    filePath := "settings.jsonc"

    // Read JSONC file
    jsoncData, err := os.ReadFile(filePath)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // Remove comments and parse
    clean := jsonc.ToJSON(string(jsoncData))

    var data map[string]interface{}
    if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(clean),

&data); err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // Modify values
    data["theme"] = "dark"
    data["experimental"] = true

    // Serialize back to JSON
    jsonBytes, _ := json.MarshalIndent

(data, "", "  ")

    // Re-add comments manually
    jsoncOutput := `{
  // Application display settings
  "theme": "dark",

  // Auto-save interval in minutes
  "autoSave": 10,

  /* Enable experimental features */
  "experimental": true
}`

    os.WriteFile(filePath,

[]byte(jsoncOutput), 0644)
    fmt.Println("✅ settings.jsonc

updated successfully!")
}

🧠 Manual reinsertion is required — Go’s parser doesn’t preserve comments.

🧰 Best Practices for Real-World Use

For JSONC-heavy configs (like VS Code, TypeScript) → Use Node.js with jsonc-parser.
For Python scripts → Use commentjson for reading, then rewrite with a comment header.
For Go CLI tools → Store original comments separately or use templates for regenerating configs.
Never use plain JSON.parse() or encoding/json directly on JSONC — they will throw syntax errors.
Keep a .jsonc template file and modify it programmatically for safe round-trip editing.

Add a cross-language CLI demo (where all three scripts modify the same JSONC file sequentially and produce versioned backups like settings.v1.jsonc, settings.v2.jsonc, etc.)?

Perfect 🔥 — Let’s now build a cross-language CLI demo where JavaScript, Python, and Go scripts all edit the same settings.jsonc file sequentially, creating versioned backups like:

settings.v1.jsonc  ← Node.js update  
settings.v2.jsonc  ← Python update  
settings.v3.jsonc  ← Go update

This demo shows how to maintain a versioned, comment-preserving JSONC configuration workflow across multiple languages.

🧩 Base Configuration File: `settings.jsonc`

We’ll start with this file in the working directory:

{
  // Application display settings
  "theme": "light",

  // Auto-save interval in minutes
  "autoSave": 10,

  /* Enable experimental features */
  "experimental": false
}

🚀 Step 1: Node.js Script — Create `settings.v1.jsonc`

✅ Tool: `jsonc-parser`

💻 `edit_node.js`

import fs from "fs";
import { modify, applyEdits } from

"jsonc-parser";

const input = "settings.jsonc";
const output = "settings.v1.jsonc";

let jsoncText = fs.readFileSync

(input, "utf8");

// Update theme to "dark"
let edits = modify(jsoncText,

["theme"], "dark",

{ formattingOptions: { insertSpaces:

 true, tabSize: 2 } });
let updated = applyEdits(jsoncText, edits);

// Save version 1
fs.writeFileSync(output, updated, "utf8");
console.log("✅ Node.js:

 Created settings.v1.jsonc");

🧾 Result (`settings.v1.jsonc`):

{
  // Application display settings
  "theme": "dark",

  // Auto-save interval in minutes
  "autoSave": 10,

  /* Enable experimental features */
  "experimental": false
}

🐍 Step 2: Python Script — Create `settings.v2.jsonc`

✅ Tool: `commentjson`

💻 `edit_python.py`

import commentjson

input_file = "settings.v1.jsonc"
output_file = "settings.v2.jsonc"

# Read JSONC text
with open(input_file, "r") as f:
    jsonc_text = f.read()

# Parse ignoring comments
data = commentjson.loads(jsonc_text)

# Modify configuration
data["autoSave"] = 15
data["experimental"] = True

# Serialize back (adding version comment)
json_text = commentjson.dumps(data, indent=2)
final_output = f"// Updated

by Python script\n{json_text}"

# Write new version
with open(output_file, "w") as f:
    f.write(final_output)

print("✅ Python: Created settings.v2.jsonc")

🧾 Result (`settings.v2.jsonc`):

// Updated by Python script
{
  "theme": "dark",
  "autoSave": 15,
  "experimental": true
}

⚠️ Inline comments from v1 are lost, but Python adds a header comment.

🐹 Step 3: Go Script — Create `settings.v3.jsonc`

✅ Tool: `tidwall/jsonc`

💻 `edit_go.go`

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "os"
    "github.com/tidwall/jsonc"
)

func main() {
    inputFile := "settings.v2.jsonc"
    outputFile := "settings.v3.jsonc"

    data, err := os.ReadFile(inputFile)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // Remove comments before parsing
    clean := jsonc.ToJSON(string(data))

    var config map[string]interface{}
    if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(clean),

 &config); err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // Modify Go-specific property
    config["compiledBy"] = "GoLang v1.23"

    // Serialize and reinsert comments

 manually
    jsonBytes, _ := json.MarshalIndent

(config, "", "  ")
    jsoncOutput := fmt.Sprintf

("// Updated by Go script\n%s",

 string(jsonBytes))

    os.WriteFile(outputFile,

 []byte(jsoncOutput), 0644)
    fmt.Println("✅ Go: Created

settings.v3.jsonc")
}

🧾 Result (`settings.v3.jsonc`):

// Updated by Go script
{
  "theme": "dark",
  "autoSave": 15,
  "experimental": true,
  "compiledBy": "GoLang v1.23"
}

🧰 How to Run Sequentially

From a terminal:

# 1️⃣ Run Node.js
node edit_node.js

# 2️⃣ Run Python
python edit_python.py

# 3️⃣ Run Go
go run edit_go.go

✅ You’ll end up with:

settings.jsonc   ← Original file
settings.v1.jsonc ← Node.js updated version
settings.v2.jsonc ← Python updated version
settings.v3.jsonc ← Go updated version

🌍 Real-World Applications

This approach can be used to:

Manage cross-language configuration pipelines.
Build CLI tools that process JSONC configs consistently.
Automate app configuration versioning (useful for dev environments).
Enable multi-language tooling (e.g., Node.js backend + Go microservice + Python utility).

Extended this example into a cross-language automation script (like a master shell or Node.js controller script that runs all three sequentially and logs version diffs)?

Perfect 💥 — let’s now take this to the next level:
we’ll build a cross-language automation pipeline that:

Runs Node.js, Python, and Go scripts sequentially.
Creates versioned .jsonc files (v1, v2, v3).
Logs what changed between versions (a small “diff” summary).

We’ll implement this with one master controller script (using Node.js) — because Node can easily call external processes and handle file I/O.

🧩 Folder Setup

jsonc-demo/
├── settings.jsonc            ← Base config
├── edit_node.js              ← Node.js step
├── edit_python.py            ← Python step
├── edit_go.go                ← Go step
├── run_pipeline.js           ← Master

controller

Make sure the other three scripts (edit_node.js, edit_python.py, edit_go.go) are the same as before.

⚙️ Step 1: Create `run_pipeline.js`

✅ Purpose:

Runs each script one by one.
Creates versioned files automatically.
Compares file differences between steps.

💻 Code: `run_pipeline.js`

import { execSync } from "child_process";
import fs from "fs";
import path from "path";

// Utility to log version differences
function logDiff(oldFile, newFile) {
  const oldText = fs.existsSync(oldFile)

 ? fs.readFileSync(oldFile, "utf8") : "";
  const newText = fs.readFileSync

(newFile, "utf8");

  const oldLines = oldText.split("\n");
  const newLines = newText.split("\n");

  console.log(`\n🔍 Diff between

 ${path.basename(oldFile)} and

 ${path.basename(newFile)}:`);

  newLines.forEach((line, i) => {
    if (oldLines[i] !== line) {
      console.log(`  ➕ ${line.trim()}`);
    }
  });
}

try {
  console.log("🚀 Starting cross-language

 JSONC pipeline...\n");

  // Step 1: Run Node.js script
  execSync("node edit_node.js",

{ stdio: "inherit" });

  // Step 2: Run Python script
  execSync("python edit_python.py",

{ stdio: "inherit" });

  // Step 3: Run Go script
  execSync("go run edit_go.go",

{ stdio: "inherit" });

  console.log("\n✅ All scripts

executed successfully!");

  // Compare outputs
  logDiff("settings.jsonc",

 "settings.v1.jsonc");
  logDiff("settings.v1.jsonc",

 "settings.v2.jsonc");
  logDiff("settings.v2.jsonc",

 "settings.v3.jsonc");

  console.log("\n🎉 Pipeline

completed! Check versioned files

for final configurations.");
} catch (err) {
  console.error("❌ Error

running pipeline:", err.message);
}

🧠 How It Works

The master Node.js script executes:
- node edit_node.js
- python edit_python.py
- go run edit_go.go
Each script:
- Reads the previous JSONC version.
- Updates specific fields.
- Writes out a new version (settings.v1.jsonc, etc.).
The controller then prints differences between each version:
- Added/modified lines are prefixed with ➕.

🧾 Example Console Output

When you run:

node run_pipeline.js

You’ll see:

🚀 Starting cross-language JSONC pipeline...

✅ Node.js: Created settings.v1.jsonc
✅ Python: Created settings.v2.jsonc
✅ Go: Created settings.v3.jsonc

✅ All scripts executed successfully!

🔍 Diff between settings.jsonc and

settings.v1.jsonc:
  ➕ "theme": "dark",

🔍 Diff between settings.v1.jsonc

and settings.v2.jsonc:
  ➕ "autoSave": 15,
  ➕ "experimental": true

🔍 Diff between settings.v2.jsonc

 and settings.v3.jsonc:
  ➕ "compiledBy": "GoLang v1.23"

🎉 Pipeline completed! Check

versioned files for final configurations.

🧰 Real-World Benefits

✅ Demonstrates multi-language JSONC compatibility.
✅ Enables cross-team configuration pipelines (e.g., Node backend + Python analytics + Go service).
✅ Shows how comments survive or are re-added.
✅ Creates audit trail via versioned files and diffs.

💡 Optional Extension Ideas

You can enhance this demo further by:

✨ Auto-generating version numbers dynamically (using timestamps).
🗃️ Storing diffs in a changelog.txt file.
🧪 Running all steps inside a Docker container for reproducibility.
🔄 Using Node.js to automatically revert to a specific version.

Add the optional extension — for example, an automated changelog generator (changelog.txt) that logs each version change with timestamps and diffs?

Fantastic ⚡ — let’s now upgrade your cross-language JSONC automation pipeline with a
🗃 Changelog Generator that automatically logs every version change, timestamp, and diff summary into a changelog.txt file.

This creates a complete audit trail for how your JSONC configuration evolves across Node.js, Python, and Go.

🧩 Updated Folder Structure

jsonc-demo/
├── settings.jsonc
├── edit_node.js
├── edit_python.py
├── edit_go.go
├── run_pipeline.js          ← Master

automation controller
├── changelog.txt            ← Auto-generated

⚙️ Step 1: Enhanced Master Script — `run_pipeline.js`

We’ll extend the controller to:

Run all language scripts sequentially.
Log changes between versions.
Append readable diffs with timestamps into changelog.txt.

💻 `run_pipeline.js`

import { execSync } from "child_process";
import fs from "fs";
import path from "path";

// === Utility: Compare two JSONC files

 line-by-line ===
function getDiff(oldFile, newFile) {
  const oldText = fs.existsSync(oldFile) ?

fs.readFileSync(oldFile, "utf8") : "";
  const newText = fs.readFileSync(newFile,

 "utf8");

  const oldLines = oldText.split("\n");
  const newLines = newText.split("\n");

  const diffLines = [];
  newLines.forEach((line, i) => {
    if (oldLines[i] !== line) {
      diffLines.push(`  ➕ ${line.trim()}`);
    }
  });
  return diffLines.join("\n");
}

// === Utility: Append changelog entry ===
function logChange(oldFile, newFile) {
  const timestamp = new Date().

toISOString().replace("T", " ").split(".")[0];
  const diffText = getDiff(oldFile, newFile);

  const logEntry = `
🕒 ${timestamp}📁 From: $

{path.basename(oldFile)}
📁 To:   ${path.basename(newFile)}

🔍 Changes:
${diffText || "  (No visible changes)"}`;

  fs.appendFileSync("changelog.txt",

 logEntry, "utf8");
  console.log(`📝 Logged changes

 from ${oldFile} → ${newFile}`);
}

// === Master runner ===
try {
  console.log("🚀 Starting

Cross-Language JSONC Pipeline...\n");

  // Clean up old changelog
  if (fs.existsSync("changelog.txt"))

 fs.unlinkSync("changelog.txt");

  // 1️⃣ Run Node.js
  execSync("node edit_node.js",

{ stdio: "inherit" });

  // 2️⃣ Run Python
  execSync("python edit_python.py",

 { stdio: "inherit" });

  // 3️⃣ Run Go
  execSync("go run edit_go.go",

{ stdio: "inherit" });

  console.log("\n✅ All scripts

executed successfully!\n");

  // === Create changelog entries ===
  logChange("settings.jsonc",

"settings.v1.jsonc");
  logChange("settings.v1.jsonc",

"settings.v2.jsonc");
  logChange("settings.v2.jsonc",

"settings.v3.jsonc");

  console.log("\n🎉 Pipeline

 completed! See 'changelog.txt'

 for version history.\n");
} catch (err) {
  console.error("❌ Pipeline

 failed:", err.message);
}

🧾 Example Output (Terminal)

🚀 Starting Cross-Language JSONC Pipeline...

✅ Node.js: Created settings.v1.jsonc
✅ Python: Created settings.v2.jsonc
✅ Go: Created settings.v3.jsonc

✅ All scripts executed successfully!

📝 Logged changes from settings.jsonc

→ settings.v1.jsonc
📝 Logged changes from settings.v1.jsonc

 → settings.v2.jsonc
📝 Logged changes from settings.v2.jsonc

 → settings.v3.jsonc

🎉 Pipeline completed! See

 'changelog.txt' for version history.

📖 Example Generated

`changelog.txt`

🕒 2025-11-04 10:52:31
📁 From: settings.jsonc
📁 To:   settings.v1.jsonc

🔍 Changes:
  ➕ "theme": "dark",
🕒 2025-11-04 10:52:33
📁 From: settings.v1.jsonc
📁 To:   settings.v2.jsonc

🔍 Changes:
  ➕ "autoSave": 15,
  ➕ "experimental": true
🕒 2025-11-04 10:52:35
📁 From: settings.v2.jsonc
📁 To:   settings.v3.jsonc

🔍 Changes:
  ➕ "compiledBy": "GoLang v1.23"
🧰 How to Run the Full Demo

# 1️⃣ Ensure dependencies installed
npm install jsonc-parser
pip install commentjson
go get github.com/tidwall/jsonc

# 2️⃣ Run the entire automation
node run_pipeline.js

After running, your directory will contain:

settings.jsonc
settings.v1.jsonc
settings.v2.jsonc
settings.v3.jsonc
changelog.txt

🧠 What You’ve Built

✅ A cross-language JSONC workflow integrating JavaScript, Python, and Go.
✅ A pipeline automation system with versioning and diffs.
✅ A timestamped changelog for auditability and tracking.

This is a real-world blueprint for:

Configuration version control (for cross-platform systems).
Automated environment syncing across services.
Testing JSONC compatibility pipelines.

✨ Optional Next Upgrade Ideas

Add Git integration – auto-commit each new version.
Generate HTML changelog reports (pretty formatted diffs).
Add a rollback command to restore previous JSONC versions.
Containerize (e.g., Dockerfile with all three environments pre-installed).

Add the Git auto-commit integration next — so each version and changelog entry is automatically committed with a descriptive message like “Update via Python step”?

Perfect 🚀 — now we’ll extend the cross-language JSONC automation pipeline to include
💾 automatic Git commits for every version and changelog entry.

This turns your workflow into a fully version-controlled multi-language config manager — perfect for real projects where each service (Node, Python, Go) updates config files and commits changes automatically.

🧩 Updated Folder Overview

jsonc-demo/
├── settings.jsonc
├── edit_node.js
├── edit_python.py
├── edit_go.go
├── run_pipeline.js

 ← Master automation + changelog + git commit
├── changelog.txt
└── .git/

← Git repo initialized automatically

⚙️ Step 1: Git Auto-Commit–Enabled Master Script

We’ll enhance the Node.js controller to:

Run Node, Python, and Go steps sequentially.
Log differences to changelog.txt.
Auto-initialize Git (if not already).
Auto-commit each stage with a clear message.

💻 `run_pipeline.js`

import { execSync } from "child_process";
import fs from "fs";
import path from "path";

// === Utility: Diff between two files ===
function getDiff(oldFile, newFile) {
  const oldText = fs.existsSync(oldFile)

 ? fs.readFileSync(oldFile, "utf8") : "";
  const newText = fs.readFileSync

(newFile, "utf8");
  const oldLines = oldText.split("\n");
  const newLines = newText.split("\n");

  const diffLines = [];
  newLines.forEach((line, i) => {
    if (oldLines[i] !== line)

 diffLines.push(`  ➕ ${line.trim()}`);
  });
  return diffLines.join("\n");
}

// === Utility: Log changelog entry ===
function logChange(oldFile, newFile) {
  const timestamp = new Date().

toISOString().replace("T", " ").split(".")[0];
  const diffText = getDiff(oldFile, newFile);
  🕒 ${timestamp}
📁 From: ${path.basename(oldFile)}
📁 To:   ${path.basename(newFile)}

🔍 Changes:
${diffText || "  (No visible changes)"}
;
  fs.appendFileSync("changelog.txt",

 entry, "utf8");
  console.log(`📝 Logged ${oldFile}

 → ${newFile}`);
}

// === Utility: Run shell command ===
function runCommand(cmd) {
  execSync(cmd, { stdio: "inherit" });
}

// === Utility: Git commit helper ===
function gitCommit(file, message) {
  try {
    execSync(`git add ${file} changelog.txt

`, { stdio: "ignore" });
    execSync(`git commit -m "${message}"`,

 { stdio: "ignore" });
    console.log(`💾 Git committed: ${message}`);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error("⚠️ Git commit

failed:", err.message);
  }
}

// === Master controller ===
try {
  console.log("🚀 Starting

Cross-Language JSONC Pipeline with

Git tracking...\n");

  // Initialize Git if missing
  if (!fs.existsSync(".git")) {
    runCommand("git init");
    console.log("🆕 Initialized

 new Git repository.\n");
  }

  // Clean up previous changelog
  if (fs.existsSync

("changelog.txt")) fs.unlinkSync

("changelog.txt");

  // Run Node.js step
  runCommand("node edit_node.js");
  logChange("settings.jsonc",

 "settings.v1.jsonc");
  gitCommit("settings.v1.jsonc",

 "Node.js step → Updated theme to dark");

  // Run Python step
  runCommand("python edit_python.py");
  logChange("settings.v1.jsonc",

 "settings.v2.jsonc");
  gitCommit("settings.v2.jsonc",

 "Python step →

Updated autoSave & experimental");

  // Run Go step
  runCommand("go run edit_go.go");
  logChange("settings.v2.jsonc",

"settings.v3.jsonc");
  gitCommit("settings.v3.jsonc",

"Go step → Added compiledBy field");

  console.log("\n✅ All steps

completed and committed!");
  console.log("📄 See

changelog.txt and git log for

version history.\n");
} catch (err) {
  console.error("❌ Pipeline

failed:", err.message);
}

🧠 What Happens Automatically

When you run:

node run_pipeline.js

The controller will:

Create/update .git repo if not already initialized.
Run each language script sequentially.
Log diffs to changelog.txt.
Stage and commit each updated version and changelog entry with descriptive messages.

🧾 Example Terminal Output

🚀 Starting Cross-Language JSONC

 Pipeline with Git tracking...

🆕 Initialized new Git repository.

✅ Node.js: Created settings.v1.jsonc
📝 Logged settings.jsonc → settings.v1.jsonc
💾 Git committed: Node.js step →

Updated theme to dark

✅ Python: Created settings.v2.jsonc
📝 Logged settings.v1.jsonc →

settings.v2.jsonc
💾 Git committed: Python step →

 Updated autoSave & experimental

✅ Go: Created settings.v3.jsonc
📝 Logged settings.v2.jsonc →

settings.v3.jsonc
💾 Git committed: Go step →

Added compiledBy field

✅ All steps completed and committed!
📄 See changelog.txt and git log

 for version history.

🧰 Check Git History

After running the script, try:

git log --oneline

You’ll see:

d8a7f32 Go step → Added compiledBy field
a24b0c1 Python step →

Updated autoSave & experimental
3be1b9a Node.js step →

Updated theme to dark

Each commit will include both the settings.vX.jsonc and the updated changelog.txt.

📖 Example Changelog O

🕒 2025-11-04 11:02:15

📁 From: settings.jsonc
📁 To:   settings.v1.jsonc

🔍 Changes:
  ➕ "theme": "dark",
..

🧠 Why This Is Powerful

✅ Fully automated versioning and commit tracking across multiple languages.
✅ Maintains a human-readable changelog for quick audits.
✅ Builds a Git-backed configuration evolution history — ideal for collaborative projects.
✅ Can plug directly into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions or Jenkins).

💡 Optional Next Steps

You can easily extend this system to:

Push automatically to GitHub after each pipeline run.

git remote add origin <your_repo_url>
git push origin main

Tag releases (e.g., v1.0, v2.0):
```
execSync('git tag v1.0 && git push 
```
```
--tags');
```
Add rollback script to restore specific versions:
```
git checkout HEAD~1 settings.v2.jsonc
```
Generate HTML or Markdown changelog reports for easy review.

Add that automatic Git push + tag functionality next (so each stage also pushes to GitHub and tags versions like v1, v2, v3)?

🔥 Excellent — let’s now extend the automation to full GitOps-level control:
Every stage (Node, Python, Go) will not only commit changes but also automatically push to GitHub and create version tags (v1, v2, v3).

This turns your JSONC pipeline into a continuous integration (CI) mini system — complete with audit logs, changelogs, and remote synchronization.

🧩 Folder Layout (Final Version)

jsonc-demo/
├── settings.jsonc
├── edit_node.js
├── edit_python.py
├── edit_go.go
├── run_pipeline.js

  ← master script (with auto Git push + tags)
├── changelog.txt
└── .git/

⚙️ Step 1: Updated `run_pipeline.js`

Now includes:

Automatic Git initialization if missing
Commits per stage
Auto-tagging (v1, v2, v3)
Auto-pushing to GitHub (if remote is set)

💻 `run_pipeline.js`

import { execSync } from "child_process";
import fs from "fs";
import path from "path";

// === Utility: Run command safely ===
function run(cmd, options = {}) {
  try {
    execSync(cmd, { stdio:

 "inherit", ...options });
  } catch (err) {
    console.error(`⚠️ Command failed

: ${cmd}\n${err.message}`);
  }
}

// === Utility: Compare two files ===
function getDiff(oldFile, newFile) {
  const oldText = fs.existsSync

(oldFile) ? fs.readFileSync(oldFile,

"utf8") : "";
  const newText = fs.readFileSync

(newFile, "utf8");

  const oldLines = oldText.split("\n");
  const newLines = newText.split("\n");

  const diffLines = [];
  newLines.forEach((line, i) => {
    if (oldLines[i] !== line)

diffLines.push(`  ➕ ${line.trim()}`);
  });
  return diffLines.join("\n");
}

// === Utility: Log changelog entry ===
function logChange(oldFile, newFile) {
  const timestamp = new Date().

toISOString().replace("T", " ").split(".")[0];
  const diffText = getDiff(oldFile, newFile);
  const entry = `
🕒 ${timestamp}
📁 From: ${path.basename(oldFile)}
📁 To:   ${path.basename(newFile)}

🔍 Changes:
${diffText || "  (No visible changes)"}
;
  fs.appendFileSync("changelog.txt",

entry, "utf8");
  console.log(`📝 Logged ${oldFile}

→ ${newFile}`);
}

// === Git commit helper ===
function gitCommitAndTag(file, message,

 tag) {
  try {
    execSync(`git add ${file}

changelog.txt`, { stdio: "ignore" });
    execSync(`git commit -m "

${message}"`, { stdio: "ignore" });
    console.log(`💾 Commit

created: ${message}`);

    // Create and push tag
    execSync(`git tag -f ${tag}`,

{ stdio: "ignore" });
    console.log(`🏷️  Tagged version: ${tag}`);

    // Push to remote (if exists)
    try {
      execSync("git push -u origin

main --tags", { stdio: "ignore" });
      console.log(`🌐 Changes

pushed to GitHub with tag ${tag}\n`);
    } catch {
      console.log("⚠️ Git

remote not set — skipping push.\n");
    }
  } catch (err) {
    console.error("⚠️ Git

 commit/tag failed:", err.message);
  }
}

// === MASTER CONTROLLER ===
try {
  console.log("🚀 Starting

 JSONC Cross-Language Pipeline

(with Git push & tags)...\n");

  // Initialize Git if not yet present
  if (!fs.existsSync(".git")) {
    run("git init");
    run('git branch -M main');
    console.log("🆕 Initialized

new Git repository.\n");
    console.log("👉 To enable

auto-push, run once:");
    console.log('   git remote

 add origin <your_repo_url>\n');
  }

  // Clean old changelog
  if (fs.existsSync("changelog.txt"))

fs.unlinkSync("changelog.txt");

  // === Step 1: Node.js ===
  run("node edit_node.js");
  logChange("settings.jsonc",

"settings.v1.jsonc");
  gitCommitAndTag("settings.v1.jsonc",

"Node.js step → dark theme", "v1");

  // === Step 2: Python ===
  run("python edit_python.py");
  logChange("settings.v1.jsonc",

 "settings.v2.jsonc");
  gitCommitAndTag("settings.v2.jsonc",

"Python step → autoSave &

experimental", "v2");

  // === Step 3: Go ===
  run("go run edit_go.go");
  logChange("settings.v2.jsonc",

"settings.v3.jsonc");
  gitCommitAndTag("settings.v3.jsonc",

"Go step → added compiledBy field", "v3");

  console.log("\n✅ All steps

 completed, tagged, and (optionally) pushed!");
  console.log("📜 Run `git log

--oneline` or `git tag` to view versions.\n");
} catch (err) {
  console.error("❌ Pipeline

failed:", err.message);
}

🧠 What Happens

When you run:

node run_pipeline.js

You’ll get this automated process:

✅ Node.js edits → creates settings.v1.jsonc
- Commits to Git (v1 tag)
- Pushes (if remote added)
✅ Python edits → creates settings.v2.jsonc
- Commits to Git (v2 tag)
- Pushes
✅ Go edits → creates settings.v3.jsonc
- Commits to Git (v3 tag)
- Pushes

🧾 Example Terminal Output

🚀 Starting JSONC Cross-Language

 Pipeline (with Git push & tags)...

🆕 Initialized new Git repository.

✅ Node.js: Created settings.v1.jsonc
📝 Logged settings.jsonc → settings.v1.jsonc
💾 Commit created: Node.js step → dark theme
🏷️  Tagged version: v1
⚠️ Git remote not set — skipping push.

✅ Python: Created settings.v2.jsonc
📝 Logged settings.v1.jsonc →

 settings.v2.jsonc
💾 Commit created: Python step →

 autoSave & experimental
🏷️  Tagged version: v2

✅ Go: Created settings.v3.jsonc
📝 Logged settings.v2.jsonc →

settings.v3.jsonc
💾 Commit created: Go step →

added compiledBy field
🏷️  Tagged version: v3

✅ All steps completed,

tagged, and (optionally) pushed!
📜 Run `git log --oneline` or

 `git tag` to view versions.

🧰 To Enable Auto Push to GitHub

After the first run, connect

your local folder to a GitHub repo:

git remote add origin

 https://github.com/<your-username>

/<repo-name>.git
git push -u origin main --tags

Next time you run node run_pipeline.js, all commits and tags (v1, v2, v3) will automatically sync to GitHub.

💡 Optional Enhancements

You can easily add:

Release Notes Generator (auto-create Markdown summaries per tag)
GitHub Action that runs the pipeline on every push
Slack or Discord webhook notifications when a new version is tagged
HTML changelog report from the text logs

Add a Release Notes generator next — so each new Git tag (v1, v2, v3) automatically creates a formatted Markdown release summary (e.g., RELEASE_NOTES.md)?

Awesome 💥 — let’s now extend your cross-language JSONC GitOps pipeline with a
🪶 Release Notes Generator that automatically builds a formatted RELEASE_NOTES.md file for every version tag (v1, v2, v3).

Every new tag will:

Append a section to RELEASE_NOTES.md.
Include timestamp, version, summary, and a diff preview from the changelog.
Be committed and (optionally) pushed to GitHub.

🧩 Final Folder Layout

jsonc-demo/
├── settings.jsonc
├── edit_node.js
├── edit_python.py
├── edit_go.go
├── run_pipeline.js

     ← master controller

 (now with changelog + git + release notes)
├── changelog.txt
├── RELEASE_NOTES.md

      ← auto-generated release summaries
└── .git/

⚙️ Step 1: Updated Master Script — `run_pipeline.js`

Below is the final integrated version, including:

JSONC automation
Changelog
Git commits + tags + pushes
Markdown release notes generation

💻 `run_pipeline.js`

import { execSync } from "child_process";
import fs from "fs";
import path from "path";

// === Helper: Safe command runner ===
function run(cmd) {
  try {
    execSync(cmd, { stdio: "inherit" });
  } catch (err) {
    console.error(`⚠️

Command failed: ${cmd}\n${err.message}`);
  }
}

// === Helper: Diff two files ===
function getDiff(oldFile, newFile) {
  const oldText =

fs.existsSync(oldFile) ?

 fs.readFileSync(oldFile, "utf8") : "";
  const newText =

fs.readFileSync(newFile, "utf8");
  const oldLines = oldText.split("\n");
  const newLines = newText.split("\n");
  const diffLines = [];
  newLines.forEach((line, i) => {
    if (oldLines[i] !==

 line) diffLines.push(`+ ${line.trim()}`);
  });
  return diffLines.join("\n");
}

// === Helper: Append changelog entry ===
function logChange(oldFile, newFile) {
  const timestamp =

new Date().toISOString().

replace("T", " ").split(".")[0];
  const diffText = getDiff(oldFile, newFile);
  const entry = `
🕒 ${timestamp}
📁 From: ${path.basename(oldFile)}
📁 To:   ${path.basename(newFile)}

🔍 Changes:
${diffText || "  (No visible changes)"}
;

  fs.appendFileSync("changelog.txt",

entry, "utf8");
  console.log(`📝 Logged ${oldFile}

 → ${newFile}`);
  return diffText;
}

// === Helper: Generate release

note section ===
function generateReleaseNotes

(version, message, diffText) {
  const timestamp = new Date().

toISOString().replace("T", " ").split(".")[0];
  const section = `
---

## 🏷️ ${version} — ${timestamp}
**Change Summary:** ${message}

\`\`\`diff
${diffText || "(No diff found)"}
\`\`\`

`;
  fs.appendFileSync("RELEASE_NOTES.md",

 section, "utf8");
  console.log(`🪶 Added release

notes for ${version}`);
}

// === Helper: Commit, tag, and push ===
function gitCommitAndTag(file,

 message, tag, diffText) {
  try {
    execSync(`git add ${file}

changelog.txt RELEASE_NOTES.md`,

 { stdio: "ignore" });
    execSync(`git commit -m

"${message}"`, { stdio: "ignore" });
    console.log(`💾 Commit

 created: ${message}`);

    execSync(`git tag -f ${tag}`,

{ stdio: "ignore" });
    console.log(`🏷️  Tagged version: ${tag}`);

    // Push if remote exists
    try {
      execSync("git push -u origin

 main --tags", { stdio: "ignore" });
      console.log(`🌐 Pushed

commit + tag ${tag}\n`);
    } catch {
      console.log("⚠️ Git remote

 not set — skipping push.\n");
    }

    // Write release notes
    generateReleaseNotes(tag,

 message, diffText);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error("⚠️ Git commit/tag

failed:", err.message);
  }
}

// === MAIN PIPELINE ===
try {
  console.log("🚀 Starting JSONC

 Cross-Language Pipeline

 (Git + Release Notes)...\n");

  // Initialize Git if needed
  if (!fs.existsSync(".git")) {
    run("git init");
    run("git branch -M main");
    console.log("🆕 Initialized

 new Git repository.");
    console.log("👉 Run `git

remote add origin <your_repo_url>`

 to enable pushing.\n");
  }

  // Clean old logs
  if (fs.existsSync("changelog.txt"))

 fs.unlinkSync("changelog.txt");
  if (fs.existsSync("RELEASE_NOTES.md"))

 fs.unlinkSync("RELEASE_NOTES.md");

  // === Node.js Step ===
  run("node edit_node.js");
  const diff1 = logChange("

settings.jsonc", "settings.v1.jsonc");
  gitCommitAndTag("settings.v1.jsonc",

"Node.js step → dark theme", "v1", diff1);

  // === Python Step ===
  run("python edit_python.py");
  const diff2 = logChange("settings.

v1.jsonc", "settings.v2.jsonc");
  gitCommitAndTag("settings.v2.jsonc",

 "Python step → autoSave &

 experimental", "v2", diff2);

  // === Go Step ===
  run("go run edit_go.go");
  const diff3 = logChange("settings

.v2.jsonc", "settings.v3.jsonc");
  gitCommitAndTag("settings.

v3.jsonc", "Go step → added

 compiledBy field", "v3", diff3);

  console.log("\n✅ All steps

completed, tagged, and release

notes updated!");
  console.log("📘 See RELEASE_NOTES.md

 for summaries.\n");
} catch (err) {
  console.error("❌ Pipeline failed:",

 err.message);
}

🧾 Example Output (Terminal)

🚀 Starting JSONC Cross-Language Pipeline

 (Git + Release Notes)...

🆕 Initialized new Git repository.

✅ Node.js: Created settings.v1.jsonc
📝 Logged settings.jsonc → settings.v1.jsonc
💾 Commit created: Node.js step → dark theme
🏷️  Tagged version: v1
🪶 Added release notes for v1

✅ Python: Created settings.v2.jsonc
📝 Logged settings.v1.jsonc →

 settings.v2.jsonc
💾 Commit created: Python step →

 autoSave & experimental
🏷️  Tagged version: v2
🪶 Added release notes for v2

✅ Go: Created settings.v3.jsonc
📝 Logged settings.v2.jsonc →

 settings.v3.jsonc
💾 Commit created: Go step →

 added compiledBy field
🏷️  Tagged version: v3
🪶 Added release notes for v3

✅ All steps completed, tagged,

 and release notes updated!
📘 See RELEASE_NOTES.md for summaries.

📘 Example Generated `RELEASE_NOTES.md`

---

## 🏷️ v1 — 2025-11-04 12:15:05
**Change Summary:** Node.js step → dark theme

```diff
+ "theme": "dark",

🏷️ v2 — 2025-11-04 12:15:09

Change Summary: Python step → autoSave & experimental

+ "autoSave": 15,
+ "experimental": true

🏷️ v3 — 2025-11-04 12:15:13

Change Summary: Go step → added compiledBy field

+ "compiledBy": "GoLang v1.23"


Each version automatically includes:
- Timestamp  
- Tag (`v1`, `v2`, `v3`)  
- Change summary  
- Diff preview  

---

## ✅ How to Run It

```bash
# Install dependencies
npm install jsonc-parser
pip install commentjson
go get github.com/tidwall/jsonc

# Initialize once and add your repo
git init
git branch -M main
git remote add origin

 https://github.com/<username>/<repo-name>.git

# Run the automation
node run_pipeline.js

🧠 What You Now Have

✅ Multi-language JSONC editing (Node, Python, Go)
✅ Automated changelog tracking
✅ Git commits, tagging, and optional pushes
✅ Markdown RELEASE_NOTES.md with diff previews
✅ A portable GitOps-ready configuration management pipeline

⚙️ Optional Next Steps

Would you like me to add:

📤 Automatic GitHub Release publishing (creates GitHub releases from tags and uploads the RELEASE_NOTES.md content automatically)?
This would make your pipeline publish formal releases to GitHub each time v1, v2, v3 are created.

Perfect 👍

So here’s what your setup can now do, all automated in one command (node run_pipeline.js):

✅ Parse and update JSONC files using Node.js, Python, and Go
✅ Automatically generate:

changelog.txt (human-readable diff log)
RELEASE_NOTES.md (Markdown summaries per version)
✅ Create Git commits + version tags (v1, v2, v3)
✅ Optionally push to GitHub if you’ve set your remote

✅ Quick Recap – How to Use

Initialize & Connect Repo

git init
git branch -M main
git remote add origin

```
 https://github.com/<your-username>
```
```
/<repo-name>.git
```

Install Dependencies

npm install jsonc-parser
pip install commentjson
go get github.com/tidwall/jsonc

Run the Complete Pipeline
```
node run_pipeline.js
```

Check Outputs

cat changelog.txt
cat RELEASE_NOTES.md
git log --oneline
git tag

Add automatic GitHub Release publishing
(using your repo’s API token — so each tag (v1, v2, v3) is turned into a GitHub Release
with RELEASE_NOTES.md as the description)?

Good 👍 before we proceed — to clarify:
automatically creating GitHub Releases from tags means your pipeline would talk to GitHub’s API using a personal access token (PAT).

That token gives permission for your local script to create releases on your GitHub repository (e.g., when you tag v1, it would make a new release page on GitHub with the release notes).

For security reasons, I can’t handle or store your token myself — but I can show you exactly how to set it up safely on your computer.

Here’s what you’ll need to do next 👇

🪶 Step 1: Create a GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT)

Go to 👉 https://github.com/settings/tokens
Click “Generate new token (classic)”
Give it a name like jsonc-pipeline
Check repo scope (for creating releases)
Copy the generated token (keep it private)

⚙️ Step 2: Set Token as Environment Variable

On your terminal (Linux/macOS):

export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_yourgeneratedtoken

On Windows PowerShell:

setx GITHUB_TOKEN "ghp_yourgeneratedtoken"

🧩 Step 3: Add Auto-Release Feature to Your Script

Here’s a small Node.js helper you can drop into your run_pipeline.js (at the bottom, after tagging):

import https from "https";

function createGitHubRelease

(tag, message, notes) {
  const token = process.env.GITHUB_TOKEN;
  const repoUrl = execSync

("git remote get-url origin").

toString().trim();

  // Extract owner/repo from the Git remote
  const match = repoUrl.match

(/github\.com[:/](.+?)\/(.+?)(\.git)?$/);
  if (!match) {
    console.log("⚠️

 Could not parse GitHub repo URL.

Skipping release.");
    return;
  }

  const [_, owner, repo] = match;

  const data = JSON.stringify({
    tag_name: tag,
    name: `${tag} — ${message}`,
    body: notes,
    draft: false,
    prerelease: false,
  });

  const options = {
    hostname: "api.github.com",
    path: `/repos/${owner}/${repo}/releases`,
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      "User-Agent": "jsonc-pipeline",
      "Authorization": `token ${token}`,
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
      "Content-Length":

 Buffer.byteLength(data),
    },
  };

  const req = https.request

(options, (res) => {
    console.log(`📤 GitHub

release created for ${tag}

 (status: ${res.statusCode})`);
  });

  req.on("error", (err) =>

 console.error("❌ Release failed:",

 err.message));
  req.write(data);
  req.end();
}

Then, right after each gitCommitAndTag(...) call, add:

createGitHubRelease(tag, message, diffText);

This will automatically publish a

release to your GitHub repository with:

The tag (e.g., v3)
The release title (from your commit message)
The content (diff summary from the changelog)

✅ Result

When you run:

node run_pipeline.js

You’ll get:

Local commits + tags
RELEASE_NOTES.md updated
GitHub Releases automatically published 🎉
final full integrated script (with changelog, tagging, release notes, and GitHub Release publishing all in one file)?

Perfect 😎 — here’s your complete, production-ready Node.js pipeline script:
It handles JSONC parsing, changelog creation, semantic version tagging, release note generation, and automatic GitHub Releases — all in one place.

📄 `run_pipeline.js`

/**
 * JSONC Release Pipeline Script
 * ------------------------------------

---------
 * ✅ Parses and updates JSONC files
 * ✅ Generates changelog.txt and

RELEASE_NOTES.md
 * ✅ Creates git commits + tags

(v1, v2, v3, ...)
 * ✅ Publishes GitHub Releases automatically
 *
 * Requirements:
 *   npm install jsonc-parser
 *   export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_yourtoken
 */

import fs from "fs";
import { execSync } from "child_process";
import { parse, modify, applyEdits,

printParseErrorCode } from "jsonc-parser";
import https from "https";

// -------------------- Configuration -

-------------------
const jsoncFile = "config.jsonc"; //

your JSONC file
const changelogFile = "changelog.txt";
const releaseNotesFile = "RELEASE_NOTES.md";
let versionCounter = 1;

// -------------------- Helpers ------

--------------
function log(msg) {
  console.log(`\x1b[36m[INFO]\x1b[0m ${msg}`);
}

function run(cmd) {
  return execSync(cmd, {

stdio: "pipe" }).toString().trim();
}

function readJSONC(file) {
  const content = fs.readFileSync

(file, "utf-8");
  const errors = [];
  const data = parse(content,

errors, { allowTrailingComma: true });
  if (errors.length) {
    errors.forEach((e) =>
      console.error(`❌ JSONC

Error: ${printParseErrorCode(e.error)}

at ${e.offset}`)
    );
    throw new Error("Invalid JSONC");
  }
  return data;
}

function writeJSONC(file, json) {
  const content = JSON.stringify

(json, null, 2);
  fs.writeFileSync(file, content);
}

// -------------------- Core Logic -----

---------------
function updateJSONCFile() {
  log("Parsing JSONC file...");
  const data = readJSONC(jsoncFile);

  // Example modification:

 add or update version
  versionCounter++;
  data.version = `v${versionCounter}`;

  log("Updating JSONC file...");
  writeJSONC(jsoncFile, data);

  return `Updated version to

v${versionCounter}`;
}

function appendChangelog(tag, message) {
  const entry = `[${new Date().

toISOString()}] ${tag} — ${message}\n`;
  fs.appendFileSync(changelogFile, entry);
}

function appendReleaseNotes(tag, message) {
  const entry = `\n## ${tag}\n${message}\n`;
  fs.appendFileSync(releaseNotesFile, entry);
}

// -------------------- Git Automation -

-------------------
function gitCommitAndTag(message) {
  log("Committing changes...");
  run("git add .");
  run(`git commit -m "${message}"`);

  const tag = `v${versionCounter}`;
  run(`git tag ${tag}`);

  log(`✅ Created git tag ${tag}`);
  return tag;
}

// -------------------- GitHub

Release Publisher --------------------
function createGitHubRelease(tag,

 message, notes) {
  const token = process.env.GITHUB_TOKEN;
  if (!token) {
    console.log("⚠️ No GITHUB_TOKEN found.

Skipping GitHub release.");
    return;
  }

  const repoUrl = run("git remote

get-url origin");
  const match = repoUrl.match

(/github\.com[:/](.+?)\/(.+?)(\.git)?$/);
  if (!match) {
    console.log("⚠️ Could not

parse GitHub repo URL. Skipping release.");
    return;
  }

  const [_, owner, repo] = match;

  const data = JSON.stringify({
    tag_name: tag,
    name: `${tag} — ${message}`,
    body: notes,
    draft: false,
    prerelease: false,
  });

  const options = {
    hostname: "api.github.com",
    path: `/repos/${owner}/${repo}/releases`,
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      "User-Agent": "jsonc-pipeline",
      "Authorization": `token ${token}`,
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
      "Content-Length":

 Buffer.byteLength(data),
    },
  };

  const req = https.request(options,

(res) => {
    console.log(`📤 GitHub

release created for ${tag}

(status: ${res.statusCode})`);
  });

  req.on("error", (err) =>

 console.error("❌ Release failed:",

err.message));
  req.write(data);
  req.end();
}

// -------------------- Pipeline

Execution --------------------
log("🚀 Starting JSONC release pipeline...");

const message = updateJSONCFile();
const tag = gitCommitAndTag(message);

appendChangelog(tag, message);
appendReleaseNotes(tag, message);
createGitHubRelease(tag, message, message);

log("🎉 Pipeline complete!");

⚙️ How to Use

Create a JSONC file (e.g., config.jsonc):

{
  // App configuration
  "name": "MyApp",
  "version": "v1"
}

Initialize Git & Connect Repo

git init
git add .
git commit -m "initial"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin

```
https://github.com/<your-
```
```
username>/<repo>.git
```
Install Dependencies
```
npm install jsonc-parser
```
Set Your GitHub Token
```
export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_yourtoken
```
Run the Pipeline
```
node run_pipeline.js
```

🧾 What You Get Automatically

Output File	Description
`config.jsonc`	Updated with incremented version
`changelog.txt`	Append-only human-readable log
`RELEASE_NOTES.md`	Markdown release notes
Git tags (`v1`, `v2`, …)	Created for each release
GitHub Release	Published automatically via API

Here include Python and Go equivalents of this GitHub-release pipeline (so you can trigger it in any language)?

Excellent 👍 — below are Python 🐍 and Go 🐹 equivalents of your JSONC release pipeline.
Both versions replicate the Node.js pipeline logic:

Parse and update a .jsonc file
Commit and tag in Git
Generate changelog + release notes
Publish a GitHub Release automatically

🐍 Python Version — `run_pipeline.py`

"""
JSONC Release Pipeline (Python Version)
------------------------------------------
✅ Parses JSONC using commentjson
✅ Updates version number
✅ Commits + tags in Git
✅ Generates changelog.txt & RELEASE_NOTES.md
✅ Publishes GitHub Release

(requires GITHUB_TOKEN)
"""

import os
import json
import subprocess
import requests
import commentjson
from datetime import datetime

JSONC_FILE = "config.jsonc"
CHANGELOG = "changelog.txt"
RELEASE_NOTES = "RELEASE_NOTES.md"
version_counter = 1


def log(msg):
    print(f"\033[96m[INFO]\033[0m {msg}")


def run(cmd):
    return subprocess.check_output

(cmd, shell=True).decode().strip()


def read_jsonc(file):
    with open(file, "r") as f:
        return commentjson.load(f)


def write_jsonc(file, data):
    with open(file, "w") as f:
        json.dump(data, f, indent=2)


def update_jsonc():
    global version_counter
    data = read_jsonc(JSONC_FILE)
    version_counter += 1
    data["version"] = f"v{version_counter}"
    write_jsonc(JSONC_FILE, data)
    return f"Updated version to v

{version_counter}"


def append_changelog(tag, message):
    with open(CHANGELOG, "a") as f:
        f.write

(f"[{datetime.utcnow().isoformat()}]

{tag} — {message}\n")


def append_release_notes(tag, message):
    with open(RELEASE_NOTES, "a") as f:
        f.write(f"\n## {tag}\n{message}\n")


def git_commit_and_tag(message):
    log("Committing changes...")
    run("git add .")
    run(f'git commit -m "{message}"')
    tag = f"v{version_counter}"
    run(f"git tag {tag}")
    log(f"✅ Created git tag {tag}")
    return tag


def create_github_release

(tag, message, notes):
    token = os.getenv("GITHUB_TOKEN")
    if not token:
        log("⚠️ No GITHUB_TOKEN found.

Skipping GitHub release.")
        return

    repo_url = run("git remote get-url origin")
    import re
    m = re.search(r"github\.com[:/]

(.+?)/(.+?)(\.git)?$", repo_url)
    if not m:
        log("⚠️ Could not parse

 GitHub repo URL.")
        return

    owner, repo = m.group(1), m.group(2)
    url = f"https://api.github.com

/repos/{owner}/{repo}/releases"
    payload = {
        "tag_name": tag,
        "name": f"{tag} — {message}",
        "body": notes,
        "draft": False,
        "prerelease": False,
    }

    headers = {
        "Authorization": f"token {token}",
        "Accept": "application/

vnd.github+json",
        "User-Agent": "jsonc-pipeline",
    }

    res = requests.post(url,

json=payload, headers=headers)
    log(f"📤 GitHub release

created for {tag} (status:

 {res.status_code})")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    log("🚀 Starting Python

JSONC pipeline...")

    message = update_jsonc()
    tag = git_commit_and_tag(message)

    append_changelog(tag, message)
    append_release_notes(tag, message)
    create_github_release(tag,

 message, message)

    log("🎉 Pipeline complete!")

🐹 Go Version — `run_pipeline.go`

// JSONC Release Pipeline (Go Version)
// ------------------------------------
// ✅ Parses JSONC using tidwall/jsonc
// ✅ Updates version
// ✅ Git commit + tag
// ✅ Changelog + release notes
// ✅ GitHub Release publishing

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"os/exec"
	"regexp"
	"time"

	"github.com/tidwall/jsonc"
)

var (
	jsoncFile       = "config.jsonc"
	changelogFile   = "changelog.txt"
	releaseNotes    = "RELEASE_NOTES.md"
	versionCounter  = 1
)

func run(cmd string) string {
	out, _ := exec.Command("bash",

 "-c", cmd).Output()
	return string(bytes.TrimSpace(out))
}

func updateJSONC() string {
	data, _ := ioutil.ReadFile(jsoncFile)
	clean := jsonc.ToJSON(string(data))
	var obj map[string]interface{}
	json.Unmarshal([]byte(clean), &obj)

	versionCounter++
	obj["version"] =

fmt.Sprintf("v%d", versionCounter)
	out, _ := json.MarshalIndent

(obj, "", "  ")
	ioutil.WriteFile(jsoncFile, out, 0644)
	return fmt.Sprintf("Updated

version to v%d", versionCounter)
}

func appendFile(file, content string) {
	f, _ := os.OpenFile(file,

 os.O_APPEND|os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY, 0644)
	defer f.Close()
	f.WriteString(content)
}

func gitCommitAndTag(message string)

 string {
	run("git add .")
	run(fmt.Sprintf("git commit

 -m \"%s\"", message))
	tag := fmt.Sprintf("v%d",

versionCounter)
	run(fmt.Sprintf("git tag %s", tag))
	fmt.Println("✅ Created git

tag", tag)
	return tag
}

func createGitHubRelease(tag, message,

 notes string) {
	token := os.Getenv("GITHUB_TOKEN")
	if token == "" {
		fmt.Println("⚠️ No

 GITHUB_TOKEN found, skipping GitHub

 release.")
		return
	}

	repoURL := run("git remote

get-url origin")
	re := regexp.MustCompile

(`github\.com[:/](.+?)/(.+?)(\.git)?$`)
	match := re.FindStringSubmatch

(repoURL)
	if match == nil {
		fmt.Println("⚠️

Could not parse GitHub repo URL.")
		return
	}

	owner, repo := match[1], match[2]
	url := fmt.Sprintf(

"https://api.github.com/repos/%s/%s/releases",

 owner, repo)

	payload := map[string]interface{}{
		"tag_name":   tag,
		"name":

 fmt.Sprintf("%s — %s", tag, message),
		"body":       notes,
		"draft":      false,
		"prerelease": false,
	}
	body, _ := json.Marshal(payload)

	req, _ := http.NewRequest

("POST", url, bytes.NewBuffer(body))
	req.Header.Add("Authorization",

"token "+token)
	req.Header.Add("User-Agent",

"jsonc-pipeline")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type",

 "application/json")

	client := &http.Client{}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err == nil {
		fmt.Printf("📤 GitHub

release created for %s (status: %s)\n",

tag, res.Status)
	}
}

func main() {
	fmt.Println("🚀 Starting

Go JSONC pipeline...")

	message := updateJSONC()
	tag := gitCommitAndTag(message)

	appendFile(changelogFile,

 fmt.Sprintf("[%s] %s — %s\n",

time.Now().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339),

tag, message))
	appendFile(releaseNotes,

fmt.Sprintf("\n## %s\n%s\n", tag, message))
	createGitHubRelease(tag,

message, message)

	fmt.Println("🎉 Pipeline complete!")
}

⚙️ Setup (Same for All Three)

Initialize Git Repo & JSONC File

git init
echo '{ "name": "MyApp", "version":

"v1" }' > config.jsonc
git add .
git commit -m "initial"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https

```
://github.com/<user>/<repo>.git
```
Set GitHub Token
```
export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_yourtoken
```
Run
- Node.js → node run_pipeline.js
- Python → python run_pipeline.py
- Go → go run run_pipeline.go

Here include a CI/CD workflow (GitHub Actions) so this runs automatically whenever you push to main or merge a PR?

Perfect 😎 — let’s make your pipeline fully automated in CI/CD using GitHub Actions.

This workflow will:
✅ Run your Node.js / Python / Go JSONC release pipeline
✅ Auto-commit, tag, and push updates
✅ Automatically publish GitHub Releases when a new tag is created
✅ Work securely with your GITHUB_TOKEN (no need for extra setup)

🚀 `.github/workflows/jsonc-release.yml`

name: JSONC Auto Release Pipeline

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual

run from GitHub UI

permissions:
  contents: write  # required for

 creating commits/tags/releases

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      # ------------------- 1.

Checkout Repository -------------------
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      # ------------------- 2.

Setup Node (for JSONC + Git

release) -------------------
      - name: Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20

      # ------------------- 3.

 Setup Python -------------------
      - name: Setup Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: "3.11"

      # ------------------- 4.

Setup Go -------------------
      - name: Setup Go
        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
        with:
          go-version: "1.23"

      # ------------------- 5.

 Install Dependencies -------------------
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: |
          npm install jsonc-parser
          pip install commentjson requests
          go get github.com/tidwall/jsonc

      # ------------------- 6.

Run JSONC Pipeline -------------------
      # Pick ONE script

 depending on your preferred language
      # (Uncomment the one you use)

      - name: Run Node.js pipeline
        run: node run_pipeline.js

      # - name: Run Python pipeline
      #   run: python run_pipeline.py

      # - name: Run Go pipeline
      #   run: go run run_pipeline.go

      # ------------------- 7.

Push new tags and commits -------------------
      - name: Push changes back to repo
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{

secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        run: |
          git config user.name

"github-actions"
          git config user.email

 "actions@github.com"
          git push origin main --tags

🧰 How It Works

🔁 Trigger

Runs automatically when you push or merge to main
You can also trigger it manually from the GitHub Actions tab (Run workflow)

⚙️ Actions

Checks out your repository
Sets up Node.js, Python, and Go (so you can run any pipeline)
Installs dependencies
Runs your JSONC pipeline (run_pipeline.js / .py / .go)
Pushes back changes, commits, and tags
Automatically publishes a GitHub Release (since your script uses GITHUB_TOKEN)

✅ Security Notes

You don’t need to manually add a personal token — GitHub Actions provides a secure GITHUB_TOKEN automatically.
It has permission to create commits, tags, and releases.

🧾 Example Workflow Output

After merging or pushing to main:

config.jsonc gets updated (version → next value)
changelog.txt and RELEASE_NOTES.md updated
Git tag created (e.g., v3)
GitHub Release appears under your repo’s Releases tab 🎉

builds and attaches binaries or ZIPs (e.g., compiled .exe, .tar.gz, or .zip files) to each GitHub Release automatically?

Excellent 😎 — now let’s extend the workflow to not only tag and publish releases automatically,
but also build and attach binaries or ZIP archives (for Node.js, Python, or Go projects).

This is the kind of setup you’d see in a production CI/CD pipeline used for open-source releases 🚀

⚙️ Full Workflow — `.github/workflows/jsonc-release.yml`

name: JSONC Auto Release with Artifacts

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual run

permissions:
  contents: write  # needed to

 create commits, tags, and releases

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      # ------------------- 1.

Checkout -------------------
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      # ------------------- 2.

 Setup Languages -------------------
      - name: Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20

      - name: Setup Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: "3.11"

      - name: Setup Go
        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
        with:
          go-version: "1.23"

      # ------------------- 3.

Install Dependencies -------------------
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: |
          npm install jsonc-parser
          pip install commentjson requests
          go get github.com/tidwall/jsonc

      # ------------------- 4.

Run Pipeline Script -------------------
      # Choose the one that

 matches your project:
      - name: Run JSONC pipeline (Node)
        run: node run_pipeline.js

      # - name: Run JSONC pipeline (Python)
      #   run: python run_pipeline.py

      # - name: Run JSONC pipeline (Go)
      #   run: go run run_pipeline.go

      # ------------------- 5.

Build Release Artifacts -------------------
      # Examples — adjust for

 your language/project type
      - name: Build artifacts
        run: |
          mkdir dist

          # Node.js build (if applicable)
          if [ -f package.json ]; then
            npm pack
            mv *.tgz dist/
          fi

          # Python build (wheel + source)
          if [ -f setup.py ]; then
            python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
            mv dist/* dist/ 2>

/dev/null || true
          fi

          # Go binary build
          if [ -f go.mod ]; then
            go build -o dist/jsonc-pipeline .
          fi

          # ZIP all outputs for convenience
          cd dist
          zip -r release_files.zip .
          cd ..

      # ------------------- 6.

 Create Release and Upload Artifacts ---

----------------
      - name: Create GitHub Release
        id: create_release
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
        with:
          files: dist/release_files.zip
          name: Auto Release $

{{ github.run_number }}
          tag_name: v${{ github.run_number }}
          body_path: RELEASE_NOTES.md
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{

secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

      # ------------------- 7.

Push Updated Changes -------------------
      - name: Push commits and tags
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{

secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        run: |
          git config user.name "github-actions"
          git config user.email

"actions@github.com"
          git push origin main --tags

🧾 What This Workflow Does

Step	Description
1–2	Checks out code and sets up Node, Python, and Go
3	Installs dependencies (for JSONC parsing)
4	Runs your JSONC version-bump pipeline
5	Builds project artifacts (Node `.tgz`, Python `.whl`, Go binary, ZIP)
6	Creates a GitHub Release with attached build ZIP
7	Pushes updated changelog + tags to `main`

📦 Example Result on GitHub

Each release (e.g., v23) will show:

✅ Updated version in config.jsonc
🗒️ New entry in changelog.txt
📝 RELEASE_NOTES.md as the release description
📦 release_files.zip containing:
- Node.js .tgz
- Python .whl / .tar.gz
- Go binary

🧰 Tips

If your project is only one language, you can delete the other build sections.
For multi-platform Go builds, you can use:
```
GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go
```

 build -o dist/jsonc-pipeline.exe .
GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go

 build -o dist/jsonc-pipeline-linux .
GOOS=darwin GOARCH=arm64 go

```
 build -o dist/jsonc-pipeline-mac .
```
For Node.js, you can replace the npm pack step with a real build command (like npm run build).

this CI setup to also auto-increment the semantic version (v1.0.0 → v1.1.0) based on commit type (feat, fix, etc.) — similar to how semantic-release works?

Perfect 👌 — this next upgrade turns your GitHub Actions pipeline into a semantic versioning system
(similar to professional CI setups like semantic-release).

It will automatically:
✅ Detect commit types (feat, fix, perf, docs, etc.)
✅ Increment version numbers (v1.0.0 → v1.1.0 → v2.0.0)
✅ Tag + publish GitHub Releases
✅ Attach built artifacts
✅ Update your JSONC version and changelogs automatically

🚀 `.github/workflows/jsonc-semantic-release.yml`

name: JSONC Semantic Release Pipeline

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: write
  issues: read
  pull-requests: read

jobs:
  semantic-release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      # ------------------- 1.

Checkout -------------------
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0  #

required for semantic versioning

      # ------------------- 2.

 Setup Node.js -------------------
      - name: Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20

      # ------------------- 3.

 Install Dependencies -------------------
      - name: Install release tools
        run: |
          npm install -g

semantic-release

@semantic-release/changelog

 @semantic-release/git

@semantic-release/github
          npm install jsonc-parser

      # ------------------- 4.

 Run Semantic Release -------------------
      - name: Run Semantic Release
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN:

${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        run: |
          npx semantic-release

      # ------------------- 5.

 Build and Attach Artifacts -----

--------------
      - name: Build release artifacts
        run: |
          mkdir -p dist

          # Optional build logic —

 adjust to your tech stack
          if [ -f package.json ]; then
            npm pack
            mv *.tgz dist/
          fi

          if [ -f setup.py ]; then
            pip install wheel
            python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
            mv dist/* dist/ 2>/dev/null || true
          fi

          if [ -f go.mod ]; then
            go build -o dist/jsonc-pipeline
          fi

          zip -r dist/release_files.zip dist/*

      # ------------------- 6.

Upload Artifacts to Release ---

----------------
      - name: Upload build artifacts
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
        with:
          files: dist/release_files.zip
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{

secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

🧩 Add Semantic Release Configuration

Create a file named .releaserc.json in the root of your repo:

{
  "branches": ["main"],
  "plugins": [
    [
      "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
      {
        "preset": "conventionalcommits"
      }
    ],
    [
      "@semantic-release/release-

notes-generator",
      {
        "preset": "conventionalcommits"
      }
    ],
    [
      "@semantic-release/changelog",
      {
        "changelogFile": "changelog.txt"
      }
    ],
    [
      "@semantic-release/github",
      {
        "assets": [
          {
            "path": "dist/release_files.zip",
            "label": "Release Build"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    [
      "@semantic-release/git",
      {
        "assets": ["config.jsonc",

 "changelog.txt", "RELEASE_NOTES.md"],
        "message": "chore(release):

 ${nextRelease.version}

[skip ci]\n\n${nextRelease.notes}"
      }
    ]
  ]
}

🧾 How It Works

Semantic Commit Detection
When you push commits like:
```
feat: add new login feature
fix: correct user API bug
docs: update README
```
→ Semantic Release detects the highest impact and bumps:
- fix: → patch (v1.0.1)
- feat: → minor (v1.1.0)
- BREAKING CHANGE: → major (v2.0.0)
Automatic Version + Release Notes
- Updates config.jsonc version (if included in your script)
- Generates changelog entries in changelog.txt
- Publishes a GitHub Release with attached ZIP artifacts
Artifacts Attached
- Node .tgz, Python .whl / .tar.gz, or Go binaries
- All compressed in release_files.zip

✅ Example Output

After merging a PR:

config.jsonc → "version": "v1.2.0"
changelog.txt updated
Git tag v1.2.0 created
GitHub Release with notes
+ build artifacts attached
No manual tagging or pushing needed 🎉

An auto-update step for config.jsonc’s version field
so Semantic Release writes the new version back into that file automatically (and commits it)?

Awesome 😎 — let’s finish the setup so your config.jsonc version also updates automatically each time a new semantic release is created.

This makes your JSONC version file the single source of truth, just like package.json or pyproject.toml.

🧩 Step 1 — Add a Custom Version Updater Script

Create a file named update-jsonc-version.js in your repository root:

// update-jsonc-version.js
import fs from "fs";
import { parse, printParseErrorCode,

 modify } from "jsonc-parser";

const filePath = "./config.jsonc";
const version = process.env.RELEASE_VERSION;

if (!version) {
  console.error("❌ RELEASE_VERSION

environment variable not set");
  process.exit(1);
}

const text = fs.readFileSync(filePath, "utf8");
let errors = [];
let json = parse(text, errors);

if (errors.length > 0) {
  console.error("❌ Failed to parse

 JSONC:");
  errors.forEach((e) => console.error

(printParseErrorCode(e.error)));
  process.exit(1);
}

// Apply modification to version field
const edits = modify(text, ["version"],

 version, { formattingOptions:

{ insertSpaces: true, tabSize: 2 } });
const updated = applyEdits(text, edits);

fs.writeFileSync(filePath, updated, "utf8");
console.log(`✅ Updated config.jsonc

 version to ${version}`);

function applyEdits(text, edits) {
  let result = text;
  for (let i = edits.length - 1;

 i >= 0; i--) {
    const edit = edits[i];
    result = result.substring

(0, edit.offset) + edit.content

+ result.substring(edit.offset + edit.length);
  }
  return result;
}

This uses the jsonc-parser library to safely update the version field without breaking comments or formatting.

⚙️ Step 2 — Update `.releaserc.json` Configuration

Add a custom step after Semantic Release runs to invoke this updater:

{
  "branches": ["main"],
  "plugins": [
    [
      "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
      { "preset": "conventionalcommits" }
    ],
    [
      "@semantic-release/

release-notes-generator",
      { "preset": "conventionalcommits" }
    ],
    [
      "@semantic-release/changelog",
      { "changelogFile": "changelog.txt" }
    ],
    [
      "@semantic-release/github",
      {
        "assets": [
          { "path":

"dist/release_files.zip", "label":

"Release Build" }
        ]
      }
    ],
    [
      "@semantic-release/git",
      {
        "assets": ["config.jsonc",

"changelog.txt", "RELEASE_NOTES.md"],
        "message": "chore(release):

 ${nextRelease.version}

 [skip ci]\n\n${nextRelease.notes}"
      }
    ]
  ],
  "prepare": [
    {
      "path": "@semantic-release/exec",
      "cmd": "RELEASE_VERSION=

${nextRelease.version} node

update-jsonc-version.js"
    }
  ]
}

This tells Semantic Release to run your script and update config.jsonc just before committing.

🧱 Step 3 — Add Dependency to `package.json`

If your repo has a Node.js environment, add this dependency:

npm install jsonc-parser

🚀 Step 4 — Run the Workflow

Each time you push commits to main that follow Conventional Commit rules:

feat: add support for JSONC comments
fix: correct missing comma issue

The pipeline will:

Determine new version (e.g. 1.1.0)
Update:
- config.jsonc → "version": "1.1.0"
- changelog.txt with new section
Commit those updates back to the repo
Create Git tag + GitHub Release
Attach your build ZIP

🧾 Example `config.jsonc` Before and After

Before:

{
  // Application configuration
  "name": "jsonc-pipeline",
  "version": "1.0.0"
}

After:

{
  // Application configuration
  "name": "jsonc-pipeline",
  "version": "1.1.0"
}

An example of Conventional Commit messages and how they map to automatic version bumps (major/minor/patch)?

Perfect 👍 — here’s the Conventional Commit guide for your JSONC Semantic Release setup.

These are the commit message formats that trigger automatic version bumps in your GitHub Actions pipeline.

🧭 What Are Conventional Commits?

Conventional Commits follow this pattern:

<type>(optional scope): <description>

[optional body]

[optional footer]

Example:

feat(parser): add JSONC comment

stripping support

🚀 Version Bump Rules (How Semantic Release Decides the Next Version)

Commit Type	Example	Version Bump	Description
`fix:`	`fix: handle trailing commas in JSONC`	Patch (x.y.z → x.y.z+1)	For bug fixes or small corrections
`feat:`	`feat(parser): add comment parsing feature`	Minor (x.y.z → x.y+1.0)	For new features that don’t break existing code
`perf:`	`perf: improve JSONC parse speed by 20%`	Minor	Performance improvements
`docs:`	`docs: update README with JSONC examples`	No bump	Documentation-only changes
`style:`	`style: format code with Prettier`	No bump	Code style, linting, etc.
`refactor:`	`refactor: simplify parse logic`	No bump	Internal code changes, no user impact
`test:`	`test: add new parser unit tests`	No bump	Testing-only changes
`chore:`	`chore: update dependencies`	No bump	Maintenance or tooling changes
`BREAKING CHANGE:`	Footer: `BREAKING CHANGE: parser API updated`	Major (x.y.z → x+1.0.0)	When backward compatibility is broken

💡 Example Scenarios

🧱 1. Small Fix

Commit:

fix(parser): handle null values correctly

→ Version bumps from 1.0.0 → 1.0.1

🌟 2. New Feature

Commit:

feat(cli): add --strip-comments option

→ Version bumps from 1.0.1 → 1.1.0

💥 3. Breaking Change

Commit:

feat(parser): switch to async API

BREAKING CHANGE: old parse() method removed

→ Version bumps from 1.1.0 → 2.0.0

📜 4. Non-Impactful Change

Commit:

docs: update usage examples in README

→ No version bump, no release.

🧩 Combining Multiple Commits

If your merge includes several commits:

One feat: and one fix: → bumps minor
One BREAKING CHANGE: → bumps major
Only fix: commits → bumps patch

Semantic Release always chooses the highest-impact bump in a batch.

✅ Recommended Workflow for Your Project

Use clear Conventional Commit messages.
Push or merge into main.
GitHub Actions runs the semantic release pipeline:
- Detects commit types
- Updates config.jsonc version
- Updates changelog.txt
- Publishes GitHub Release + assets

A ready-made Git commit template (so developers automatically follow this format when committing)?

Perfect 😎 — let’s add a Git commit message template so that everyone on your project automatically follows the correct Conventional Commit format (making Semantic Release work smoothly every time).

🧩 Step 1 — Create a Commit Template File

Create a file at the root of your repo called:
.gitmessage.txt

Paste this inside:

# 🧱 Conventional Commit Template
#
# Format: <type>(optional scope)

: <short summary>
# Example: feat(parser):

add JSONC comment support
#
# Types: feat | fix | perf |

 docs | style | refactor | test | chore
#
# BREAKING CHANGES:
# Add a footer starting

 with BREAKING CHANGE: to

indicate breaking updates

# Commit title (keep under 100 characters)
feat(parser): 

# Commit body (optional) –

explain why the change was made
# Use full sentences and

 mention issue numbers if any.

# Footer (optional)
# BREAKING CHANGE:

description of what changed
# Closes: #123

⚙️ Step 2 — Configure Git to Use This Template

Run this command in your repository:

git config commit.template .gitmessage.txt

Now, every time you run git commit, the editor will open with this prefilled structure.
That ensures all developers stick to the same format automatically.

🧠 Optional — Enforce Format with a Commit Linter

You can use commitlint to reject commits that don’t follow the rules.

Install:

npm install --save-dev

 @commitlint/{config-conventional,cli} husky

Add config files:

commitlint.config.js

export default {
  extends: ['@commitlint/config-conventional']
};

.husky/commit-msg (make it executable with chmod +x .husky/commit-msg)

#!/bin/sh
. "$(dirname "$0")/_/husky.sh"

npx --no-install commitlint --edit "$1"

Initialize Husky hooks:

npx husky install
npm pkg set scripts.prepare="husky install"

Now any bad commit message (e.g. “update stuff”) will be rejected automatically.

✅ Developer Workflow Example

# Create a feature branch
git checkout -b feature/jsonc-support

# Make changes, then commit
git commit

# The editor opens with the

Conventional Commit template.
# Fill it out, for example:
feat(parser): add JSONC

comment stripping support

# Push to main
git push origin feature/jsonc-support

When merged into main, your GitHub Action pipeline will:

Detect feat → bump minor version
Update config.jsonc and changelog.txt
Create a GitHub release
Attach build artifacts

A ready-to-copy Husky + Commitlint setup inside your existing GitHub workflow (so all contributors are automatically linted in CI)?

Excellent 🔥 — let’s now fully integrate Commitlint + Husky into your existing GitHub Actions and local developer setup.

This ensures that every commit, whether local or from a pull request, follows the Conventional Commits format your Semantic Release system depends on.

🧱 Step 1 — Install the Tools

Run these once in your project:

npm install --save-dev husky

 @commitlint/{config-conventional,cli}

This adds both Husky (for Git hooks) and Commitlint (for validation).

⚙️ Step 2 — Configure Commitlint

Create a file at the root of your repo:

commitlint.config.js

export default {
  extends: ['@commitlint/config-conventional'],
};

This tells Commitlint to enforce the official Conventional Commit rules.

⚙️ Step 3 — Set Up Husky Hooks

Initialize Husky:

npx husky install

Then tell npm to reinstall Husky automatically whenever someone clones your repo:

npm pkg set scripts.prepare="husky install"

Now, add a commit hook:

npx husky add .husky/commit-msg

 'npx --no-install commitlint --edit "$1"'

Make sure it’s executable:

chmod +x .husky/commit-msg

✅ From now on, every time someone runs git commit, Husky triggers Commitlint — and blocks invalid messages like “updated stuff” or “bug fix”.

🧩 Step 4 — Update Your `.gitmessage.txt` Template (Optional)

You can combine this with the commit template we added earlier for guidance.

Add this to your .gitmessage.txt:

# 🧱 Conventional Commit Template
# feat, fix, docs, style,

 refactor, perf, test, chore
# Example: feat(parser): add

JSONC comment stripping
feat(scope): short message

# Body (optional): explain why

 and what changed

# Footer (optional)
# BREAKING CHANGE: details
# Closes: #123

Then set it globally:

git config commit.template .gitmessage.txt

⚙️ Step 5 — Enforce Commitlint in GitHub Actions (CI Check)

To make sure all contributors (even those not using Husky locally) follow the rules,
add this extra job to your existing GitHub workflow (for example, inside .github/workflows/jsonc-semantic-release.yml):

  lint-commits:
    name: Validate Conventional Commits
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20

      - name: Install Commitlint
        run: npm install --save-dev

@commitlint/{config-conventional,cli}

      - name: Lint commit messages
        run: |
          npx commitlint --from=$(git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD) --to=HEAD

This job:

Checks every commit in the push/PR.
Fails the workflow if a bad commit message is detected.

✅ Example CI + Local Workflow Summary

Action	Tool	Result
Developer commits locally	Husky + Commitlint	Stops invalid commit message
Commit message template	`.gitmessage.txt`	Helps users follow the format
GitHub Actions check	`lint-commits` job	Rejects bad PRs or pushes
Semantic Release	GitHub Actions	Publishes new versions automatically

🧠 Example in Practice

✅ Good:

feat(parser): add support for

 trailing commas in JSONC

✅ Good:

fix(config): handle missing

 version field gracefully

❌ Bad:

update parser

❌ Bad:

bug fix

Now merge all this (semantic release + commitlint + husky + artifact build) into a single unified GitHub Actions workflow file so you can copy-paste it directly into .github/workflows/ci.yml?

Perfect 💪 — here’s your complete, production-ready GitHub Actions workflow
that unifies everything:

✅ Semantic Release (auto versioning)
✅ JSONC version updater
✅ Build + attach artifacts (Node.js / Python / Go)
✅ Commitlint validation (Conventional Commits)
✅ Fully automated changelog and GitHub release

🚀 `.github/workflows/ci.yml`

name: JSONC CI & Semantic Release Pipeline

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
  pull_request:
    branches: [main]
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: write
  issues: read
  pull-requests: read

jobs:
  # ------------------- 🧩 1.

 Commit Message Validation --------

-----------
  lint-commits:
    name: Validate Conventional Commits
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20

      - name: Install Commitlint
        run: npm install --

save-dev @commitlint/{config-conventional,cli}

      - name: Lint commit messages
        run: npx commitlint

 --from=$(git rev-list -

-max-parents=0 HEAD) --to=HEAD

  # ------------------- 🚀

 2. Build, Version, and Release ---

----------------
  release:
    name: Semantic Release & Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: lint-commits

    steps:
      # Checkout full history

for semantic-release
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      # Setup Node, Python, and Go
      - name: Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20

      - name: Setup Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: "3.11"

      - name: Setup Go
        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
        with:
          go-version: "1.23"

      # Install Dependencies
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: |
          npm install -g

semantic-release @semantic-release/

changelog @semantic-release/git

@semantic-release/github @semantic-release/exec
          npm install jsonc-parser
          pip install wheel
          go mod tidy || true

      # -------------------

🧠 JSONC Version Updater -------------------
      - name: Create version update script
        run: |
          cat <<'EOF' >

update-jsonc-version.js
          import fs from "fs";
          import { parse, modify,

printParseErrorCode } from "jsonc-parser";

          const filePath =

 "./config.jsonc";
          const version =

process.env.RELEASE_VERSION;
          if (!version) {
            console.error

("❌ RELEASE_VERSION not set");
            process.exit(1);
          }

          const text =

 fs.readFileSync(filePath, "utf8");
          let errors = [];
          const json = parse(text, errors);

          if (errors.length) {
            console.error("❌ Parse error:", errors.map(e => printParseErrorCode(e.error)).join(", "));
            process.exit(1);
          }

          const edits =

 modify(text, ["version"], version, { formattingOptions: { insertSpaces: true, tabSize: 2 } });
          let result = text;
          for (let i = edits.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
            const e = edits[i];
            result = result.slice(0, e.offset) + e.content + result.slice(e.offset + e.length);
          }

          fs.writeFileSync(filePath, result, "utf8");
          console.log("✅ Updated config.jsonc version to", version);
          EOF

      # ------------------- 📦 Build Artifacts -------------------
      - name: Build artifacts
        run: |
          mkdir -p dist

          # Node.js
          if [ -f package.json ]; then
            npm pack
            mv *.tgz dist/
          fi

          # Python
          if [ -f setup.py ]; then
            python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
            mv dist/* dist/ 2>/dev/null || true
          fi

          # Go
          if [ -f go.mod ]; then
            go build -o dist/jsonc-pipeline
          fi

          zip -r dist/release_files.zip dist/*

      # ------------------- 🚀 Run

 Semantic Release -------------------
      - name: Run Semantic Release
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{

secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        run: |
          echo '{
            "branches": ["main"],
            "plugins": [
              ["@semantic-release/

commit-analyzer", {"preset": "conventionalcommits"}],
              ["@semantic-release/

release-notes-generator", {"preset":

"conventionalcommits"}],
              ["@semantic-release/

changelog", {"changelogFile": "changelog.txt"}],
              ["@semantic-release/

exec", {"prepareCmd": "RELEASE_VERSION=${nextRelease.version} node update-jsonc-version.js"}],
              ["@semantic-release/git", {
                "assets": ["

config.jsonc", "changelog.txt",

"RELEASE_NOTES.md"],
                "message": "

chore(release): ${nextRelease.version}

[skip ci]\\n\\n${nextRelease.notes}"
              }],
              ["@semantic-

release/github", {
                "assets": [{

"path": "dist/release_files.zip",

 "label": "Release Build"}]
              }]
            ]
          }' > .releaserc.json

          npx semantic-release

🧩 Folder Setup Overview

.
├── config.jsonc
├── changelog.txt
├── RELEASE_NOTES.md
├── package.json
├── setup.py        (optional)
├── go.mod          (optional)
├── .gitmessage.txt
├── commitlint.config.js
└── .github/
    └── workflows/
        └── ci.yml

✅ What Happens When You Push

Step	Action
1️⃣	GitHub validates commit messages with Commitlint
2️⃣	Semantic Release runs, analyzes commits
3️⃣	Updates `config.jsonc` version
4️⃣	Updates `changelog.txt` & `RELEASE_NOTES.md`
5️⃣	Builds artifacts (Node, Python, Go)
6️⃣	Publishes a GitHub Release with ZIP attachment
7️⃣	Commits version + changelog back to `main`

🧠 Example Commit & Result

Commit:

feat(parser): add JSONC comment stripping support

Result:

Version bump: 1.0.0 → 1.1.0
config.jsonc updated automatically
changelog.txt entry added
GitHub Release created with artifact ZIP

add an optional step that automatically publishes the built package
to npm (for Node.js) or PyPI (for Python)

when a release is made?

Excellent 🔥 — let’s finish your CI/CD pipeline by adding the final publishing step,
so that every successful release automatically uploads your built packages to:

📦 npm (for Node.js modules)
🐍 PyPI (for Python packages)
💾 (optional) Go release binaries are already uploaded to GitHub

This makes your JSONC project a fully automated, versioned, and deployable package.

🚀 Final Version — `.github/workflows/ci.yml`

Here’s the complete end-to-end workflow ready to copy into your repo:

name: JSONC CI, Release & Publish Pipeline

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
  pull_request:
    branches: [main]
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: write
  issues: read
  pull-requests: read
  packages: write

jobs:
  # ------------------- 🧩 1.

Validate Commit Messages -------------------
  lint-commits:
    name: Validate Conventional Commits
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20

      - name: Install Commitlint
        run: npm install --save-dev

@commitlint/{config-conventional,cli}

      - name: Lint commits
        run: npx commitlint --

from=$(git rev-list --

max-parents=0 HEAD) --to=HEAD

  # ------------------- 🚀 2.

Build, Release, and Publish -------

------------
  release:
    name: Build, Semantic Release & Publish
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: lint-commits

    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      # Setup environments
      - name: Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20

      - name: Setup Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: "3.11"

      - name: Setup Go
        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
        with:
          go-version: "1.23"

      # Install required dependencies
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: |
          npm install -g semantic-

release @semantic-release/changelog

 @semantic-release/git @semantic

-release/github @semantic-release/exec
          npm install jsonc-parser
          pip install wheel twine
          go mod tidy || true

      # ------------------- 🧠

JSONC Version Updater -------------------
      - name: Create JSONC version

 update script
        run: |
          cat <<'EOF' >

update-jsonc-version.js
          import fs from "fs";
          import { parse,

 modify, printParseErrorCode }

from "jsonc-parser";
          const filePath = "./config.jsonc";
          const version =

process.env.RELEASE_VERSION;
          if (!version)

{ console.error("❌ RELEASE_VERSION not set"); process.exit(1); }
          const text =

fs.readFileSync(filePath, "utf8");
          let errors =

[];
          const json = parse(text, errors);
          if (errors.length) {
            console.

error("❌ Parse error:",

errors.map(e =>

printParseErrorCode(e.error)).join(", "));
            process.exit(1);
          }
          const edits =

 modify(text, ["version"],

version, { formattingOptions:

{ insertSpaces: true, tabSize: 2 } });
          let result = text;
          for (let i =

edits.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
            const e = edits[i];
            result =

result.slice(0, e.offset) +

e.content + result.slice(e.offset + e.length);
          }
          fs.writeFileSync

(filePath, result, "utf8");
          console.log("✅

Updated config.jsonc version to", version);
          EOF

      # -------------------

 📦 Build Artifacts -------------------
      - name: Build artifacts
        run: |
          mkdir -p dist
          # Node.js package
          if [ -f package.json ]; then
            npm pack
            mv *.tgz dist/
          fi
          # Python package
          if [ -f setup.py ]; then
            python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
            mv dist/* dist/

 2>/dev/null || true
          fi
          # Go binary
          if [ -f go.mod ]; then
            go build -o dist/jsonc-pipeline
          fi
          zip -r dist/release_files.zip dist/*

      # -------------------

🚀 Semantic Release -------------------
      - name: Run Semantic Release
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        run: |
          echo '{
            "branches": ["main"],
            "plugins": [
              ["@semantic-

release/commit-analyzer", {"preset":

 "conventionalcommits"}],
              ["@semantic-

release/release-notes-generator

", {"preset": "conventionalcommits"}],
              ["@semantic-

release/changelog", {"changelogFile

": "changelog.txt"}],
              ["@semantic-

release/exec", {"prepareCmd":

 "RELEASE_VERSION=$

{nextRelease.version} node

 update-jsonc-version.js"}],
              ["@semantic-release/git", {
                "assets":

["config.jsonc", "changelog.txt",

"RELEASE_NOTES.md"],
                "message":

 "chore(release): $

{nextRelease.version}

 [skip ci]\\n\\n${nextRelease.notes}"
              }],
              ["@semantic-release/github", {
                "assets":

 [{"path": "dist/release_files.zip",

"label": "Release Build"}]
              }]
            ]
          }' > .releaserc.json

          npx semantic-release

      # -------------------

📤 Publish to npm -------------------
      - name: Publish to npm
        if: ${{ env.NPM_TOKEN !=

 '' && hashFiles('package.json') != '' }}
        env:
          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN:

 ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
        run: |
          echo "//registry.

npmjs.org/:_authToken=$

{NODE_AUTH_TOKEN}" > ~/.npmrc
          npm publish --

access public || echo "⚠️

 npm publish skipped"

      # -------------------

🐍 Publish to PyPI -------------------
      - name: Publish to PyPI
        if: ${{

secrets.PYPI_USERNAME

 != '' && secrets.PYPI_PASSWORD !=

 '' && hashFiles('setup.py') != '' }}
        run: |
          twine upload dist/*

 -u ${{ secrets.PYPI_USERNAME }}

-p ${{ secrets.PYPI_PASSWORD }}

 || echo "⚠️ PyPI publish skipped"

🧾 Required Repository Secrets

Secret	Purpose
`GITHUB_TOKEN`	Auto-generated by GitHub for release commits
`NPM_TOKEN`	Your npm auth token (for npm publish)
`PYPI_USERNAME`	PyPI username (for Python publish)
`PYPI_PASSWORD`	PyPI password or API token

✅ Summary of What Happens

Step	Action
🧩 Commitlint	Ensures Conventional Commit messages
🧠 JSONC Version Updater	Updates version in `config.jsonc`
🏗️ Build Stage	Builds Node, Python, and Go artifacts
🚀 Semantic Release	Bumps version, updates changelog, tags release
📦 Publish	Pushes to npm and/or PyPI
💾 GitHub Release	Uploads artifacts ZIP automatically

🧠 Example

Commit:

feat(parser): add JSONC multiline

 comment support

Result:

Version: 1.0.0 → 1.1.0
config.jsonc updated
changelog.txt updated
GitHub release created with ZIP
npm and/or PyPI publish triggered 🎯

✅ You now have a complete, professional-grade CI/CD setup
for JSONC-based projects — ready to auto-version, release, and deploy
across Node.js, Python, and Go environments.

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Complete guide with code samples showing JSONC in JavaScriptNode.js and Python

🧩 What is JSONC?

🚀 1. JavaScript / Node.js

✅ Tooling Support:

💻 Install:

🧠 Example Code:

🧾 Output:

🐍 2. Python

✅ Tooling Support:

💻 Install:

🧠 Example Code:

🧾 Output:

🐹 3. Go (Golang)

✅ Tooling Support:

💻 Install:

🧠 Example Code:

🧾 Output:

🧰 🧠 Key Takeaways

🚀 1. JavaScript / Node.js — Write JSONC to File

✅ Tooling Support:

💻 Install:

🧠 Example Code (Preserving Comments):

🧩 If you don’t need to preserve comments:

🐍 2. Python —

Write JSONC to File

✅ Tooling Support:

💻 Example Code:

🐹 3. Go (Golang) — Write JSONC to File

✅ Tooling Support:

💻 Example Code:

🧰

🧠 Key Tips

⚙️ Example Scenario — settings.jsonc

🚀 1. JavaScript / Node.js — Best for True JSONC Preservation

✅ Tool: jsonc-parser

💻 Install:

🧠 Code: editSettings.js

🧾 Result (settings.jsonc):

🐍 2. Python — Simple, but Manual Comment Handling

✅ Tool: commentjson

💻 Install:

🧠 Code: edit_settings.py

🧾 Result:

🐹 3. Go — Manual Comment Re-Insertion

✅ Tool: tidwall/jsonc (for parsing JSONC)

💻 Install:

🧠 Code: edit_settings.go

🧰 Best Practices for Real-World Use

🧩 Base Configuration File: settings.jsonc

🚀 Step 1: Node.js Script — Create settings.v1.jsonc

✅ Tool: jsonc-parser

💻 edit_node.js

🧾 Result (settings.v1.jsonc):

🐍 Step 2: Python Script — Create settings.v2.jsonc

✅ Tool: commentjson

💻 edit_python.py

🧾 Result (settings.v2.jsonc):

🐹 Step 3: Go Script — Create settings.v3.jsonc

✅ Tool: tidwall/jsonc

💻 edit_go.go

🧾 Result (settings.v3.jsonc):

🧰 How to Run Sequentially

🌍 Real-World Applications

🧩 Folder Setup

⚙️ Step 1: Create run_pipeline.js

✅ Purpose:

💻 Code: run_pipeline.js

🧠 How It Works

🧾 Example Console Output

🧰 Real-World Benefits

💡 Optional Extension Ideas

🧩 Updated Folder Structure

⚙️ Step 1: Enhanced Master Script — run_pipeline.js

💻 run_pipeline.js

🧾 Example Output (Terminal)

📖 Example Generated

changelog.txt

🧠 What You’ve Built

✨ Optional Next Upgrade Ideas

⚙️ Example Scenario — `settings.jsonc`

✅ Tool: `jsonc-parser`

🧠 Code: `editSettings.js`

🧾 Result (`settings.jsonc`):

✅ Tool: `commentjson`

🧠 Code: `edit_settings.py`

✅ Tool: `tidwall/jsonc` (for parsing JSONC)

🧠 Code: `edit_settings.go`

🧩 Base Configuration File: `settings.jsonc`

🚀 Step 1: Node.js Script — Create `settings.v1.jsonc`

✅ Tool: `jsonc-parser`

💻 `edit_node.js`

🧾 Result (`settings.v1.jsonc`):

🐍 Step 2: Python Script — Create `settings.v2.jsonc`

✅ Tool: `commentjson`

💻 `edit_python.py`

🧾 Result (`settings.v2.jsonc`):

🐹 Step 3: Go Script — Create `settings.v3.jsonc`

✅ Tool: `tidwall/jsonc`

💻 `edit_go.go`

🧾 Result (`settings.v3.jsonc`):

⚙️ Step 1: Create `run_pipeline.js`

💻 Code: `run_pipeline.js`

⚙️ Step 1: Enhanced Master Script — `run_pipeline.js`

💻 `run_pipeline.js`

`changelog.txt`

💻 `run_pipeline.js`

⚙️ Step 1: Updated `run_pipeline.js`

💻 `run_pipeline.js`

⚙️ Step 1: Updated Master Script — `run_pipeline.js`

💻 `run_pipeline.js`

📘 Example Generated `RELEASE_NOTES.md`

📄 `run_pipeline.js`

🐍 Python Version — `run_pipeline.py`

🐹 Go Version — `run_pipeline.go`

🚀 `.github/workflows/jsonc-release.yml`

⚙️ Full Workflow — `.github/workflows/jsonc-release.yml`

🚀 `.github/workflows/jsonc-semantic-release.yml`

⚙️ Step 2 — Update `.releaserc.json` Configuration

🧱 Step 3 — Add Dependency to `package.json`

🧾 Example `config.jsonc` Before and After