Dont Regex JSON files. Parse them instead

[eddiemonge]

Instead of the regex to read the JSON file, it should be read in, modified then written back out:

var jsonPath = 'path/to/file.json';
var json = require(jsonPath);
json = JSON.parse(json);
json.version = newVersion;
require('fs').write(jsonPath, json)

code is not to scale and is example only

[steveoh]

that assumes you're only going to bump versions in json files? That is not my use case.

[eddiemonge]

Well if the file isn't a .json then it can do a regular regex. If it is a JSON file then it should parse it and not regex it.