Get a local json file on NativeScript

Question

How to get a local big json data?

I have tried this, but I had no success:

var sa = require(\"./shared/resources/sa.json\");
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Answer 1

As of TypeScript version 2.9.x and above (in NativeScript 5.x.x is using versions 3.1.1 and above) we can now use resovleJsonModule option for tsconfig.json. With this option, the JSON files can now be imported just as modules and the code is simpler to use, read and maintain.

For example, we can do:

import config from "./config.json";

console.log(config.count); // 42
console.log(config.env); // "debug"

All we need to do is to use TypeScript 2.9.x and above and enable the propety in tsconfig.json

// tsconfig.json
{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "module": "commonjs",
        "resolveJsonModule": true,
        "esModuleInterop": true
    }
}

A sample project demonstrating the above can be found here