Custom Formatters

To manage content with other file formats than the built in ones, you can register a custom formatter:

const JSON5 = require("json5");

CMS.registerCustomFormat("json5", "json5", {
  fromFile: (text) => JSON5.parse(text),
  toFile: (value) => JSON5.stringify(value, null, 2),
});

Then include format: json5 in your collection configuration. See the Collection docs for more details.

You can also override the in-built formatters. For example, to change the YAML serialization method from yaml to js-yaml:

const jsYaml = require("js-yaml");

CMS.registerCustomFormat("yml", "yml", {
  fromFile: (text) => jsYaml.load(text),
  toFile: (value) => jsYaml.dump(value),
});