Allow comments in .angular-cli.json

[mxii]

Bug Report or Feature Request (mark with an x)

- [ ] bug report -> please search issues before submitting
- [ x ] feature request

Versions.

v1.0.0

Repro steps.

ng s

The log given by the failure.

InvalidConfigError: Parsing .angular-cli.json failed. Please make sure your .angular-cli.json is valid JSON. Error:
SyntaxError: Unexpected token / in JSON at position 533

Desired functionality.

Would be really great to be able to put comments to that file. :)

[aslan92]

JSON file can not contain comments!

[trevor-hackett]

JSON format doesn't allow comments. This is not a limitation with the CLI. It's a limitation of JSON itself.

[filipesilva]

Closing as the community already answered this, thanks guys!

[filipesilva]

Actually, let's keep this open... I misread it as a bug report, but it's a very reasonable feature request.

[bekos]

Sorry if you have answered it elsewhere, but can this file actually be a .js file instead of .json?
It will be much more flexible and easier to work with.

[filipesilva]

@bekos no, that is not supported.

[bekos]

@filipesilva This would help if we actually needed a bit different setup for production and development setups in angular-cli. Does this make sense for a new feature request?