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Presumably JSMin removes optional quotes in object laterals, so it probably doesn't output valid JSON.

• spellboots 13y ago
  That would be a pretty big mistake for the author of both the JSON spec and JSMin to make? Maybe it is but it seems unlikely.
  • reverius42 13y ago
    JSMin is not the right tool for this. I'm sure it conforms to the JavaScript (ECMAScript) spec but probably not the JSON spec. Here's a trivial JavaScript function to convert JSON5 to regular JSON with no comments and quoted identifiers and all that good stuff: function JSON5_to_JSON(str) { return JSON5.parse(str).stringify(); } This is exactly what is suggested in the Usage section of the linked article.
    • spellboots 13y ago
      If the author of the JSON spec and JSMin says it's the right tool for the job, I am inclined to trust him on that barring further evidence that it is not...
      • reverius42 13y ago
        Since when does Crockford say that JSMin is the right tool for this particular job: translating JSON5 into regular JSON?