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Hi, Paula. Great article!
I have one question, in JSON we can easily create a list of objects without “naming” them, like this:
[{“a”: “b”}, {“x”: “y”}]
How we do that in YAML? For example, a list of Authors (I don’t wanna have [{“authors” : {authoObj1}}, {“authors” : {authoObj2}}])

Paula Santamaría • Oct 22 '19 • Edited

Great question!
You can achieve that by entering the hyphen first and then the properties in a new line, like so:

- 
    name: George
    last-name: Orwell
- 
    name: Stephen
    last-name: King

Which will translate to JSON as:

[
    {
        "name": "George",
        "last-name": "Orwell"
    },
    {
        "name": "Stephen",
        "last-name": "King"
    }
]

Also here's a nice online tool I've been using to try the YAML syntax and see its JSON counterpart.