TOML

Background Since migrating this site to Hugo, I felt like it was finally time to avoid learning TOML. This assumes you don’t know TOML but know other data formats? Time to speedrun through. The 30-second Start You can think of toml as key value file format with namespace prefixes that translate to JSON: # this is a comment key = "value" [my-key-prefix] key2 = "value2" person.name = "John" Conceptually produces { "key": "value", "my-key-prefix": { "key2": "value2" }, "person": { "name": "John" } } Dot-notation indicates a nested object. In the spec, TOML calls objects tables. ...