Show HN: Sir – Git-diff-able JSON database on yer filesystem

Amusingly, this is almost identical to how HN’s database works. Or worked.

It wasn’t json, but it probably could’ve been.

I've definitely also written a big chunk of something like this (including JSON) for an internal tool.

Just didn't get to realising my folders were generic tables.

I'd go for YAML instead of JSON, or "JSON with trailing commas", or else the diffs become messy.

YAMLs biggest advantage over JSON: records can be appended (at the end of an existing file). Which you can't do with JSON objects, arrays etc because of the closing bracket at the end.