markdownlintrc cannot be parsed because of comments

[freakezoid]

Hi,

i tried adding rules to the .markdownlintrc file and was wondering why these rules where are not applied.

If you run yarn run lint:all:markdownlint -c .markdownlintrc you can see a message:

Cannot read or parse config file .markdownlintrc

After removing all comments from the .markdownlintrc the message disappeared and the rules where correctly applied.

I am working on macOS.

[chrisvfritz]

The error seems to be the result of a restriction in markdownlint-cli, where they require pure JSON rather than JSONC (JSON with comments) when using the --config/-c flag. I've just fixed this by converting the config to YAML instead, which always allows comments. 🙂