# json5 mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für json5 in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:json5
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install json5
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:json5
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.2.3
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** JSON enhanced with usability features
- **Homepage:** <https://json5.org/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/json5/json5>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- json5 (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 2.2.3
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

JSON5 is both a data-format proposal and a JavaScript reference implementation for a more hand-editable superset of JSON. The format adds familiar ECMAScript 5.1 syntax such as comments, trailing commas, single-quoted strings, unquoted object keys, and additional number forms.

### Projektgeschichte

The JSON5 GitHub repository and npm package both date to May 2012. The official site describes JSON5 as `JSON for Humans`, positioning it for configuration and other hand-authored files rather than machine-to-machine interchange.

In March 2018, the JSON5 specification was published as Standard JSON5 1.0.0. The spec frames JSON5 as a superset of JSON that expands syntax with selected ECMAScript 5.1 productions while keeping JSON's data model.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The official site reported in 2022 that JSON5 received more than 65 million npm downloads per week, ranked in the top 0.1 percent of depended-upon npm packages, and had been adopted by projects including Chromium, Next.js, Babel, Retool, WebStorm, and Apple platforms.

Its wide adoption came less from command-line use than from dependency graphs: parsers, build tools, configuration loaders, and editors pulled JSON5 in as a friendlier format for files people edit by hand.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The JavaScript package exposes an API compatible with the standard JSON API, including `JSON5.parse()` and `JSON5.stringify()`, and the Homebrew formula provides the `json5` CLI. Typical usage is parsing configuration-like input that wants comments and trailing commas while preserving JSON-like data structures.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

JSON5 is package-nerd significant because it became one of the few JSON-adjacent formats that escaped niche status. It is a reminder that tiny syntax conveniences in configuration files can create enormous dependency footprints once build systems and editors standardize around them.

### Zeitleiste

- 2012-05-27: The GitHub repository was created and npm recorded version 0.0.0.
- 2018-03: Standard JSON5 1.0.0 was published.
- 2021-02-01: GitHub recorded release v2.2.0.
- 2022: The official site reported more than 65 million npm downloads per week and major-project adoption.
- 2022-12-31: GitHub recorded release v2.2.3.

### Related projects

- JSON5 sits beside JSON, YAML, TOML, HJSON, and JSONC as a configuration-oriented data format. Its reference implementation is also related to non-JavaScript ports listed by the JSON5 organization.

### Quellen

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/json5>
- <https://github.com/json5/json5>
- <https://json5.org/>
- <https://registry.npmjs.org/json5>
- <https://spec.json5.org/>
- <https://www.npmjs.com/package/json5>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/json5.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/json5.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph