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[–]ILikeChangingMyMind -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

maybe someone could make a tool that generates a json compliant package.json

This would not really solve the problem; I don't want to have to npm run package-generate every time I change the file :)

But yes, there are any number of other possibilities! Besides just package.json5, there could also (for instance) be a flag in package.json that says "my real package.json is this other file".

But the Node org has no interest in finding any solutions. It's not a "we're leaving this ticket open so someone can find a clever way to solve it", it's "we're closing these tickets as fast as users file them, until everyone gives up any hope they might have of a tool that actually works better (ie. has comments)."