hocon is a configuration file for maintaining environment-specific configuration in Akka, play, and python projects

HOCON is a superset of JSON with features - includes, substitutions comments

Here is an hocon sample configuration file example

\\ simple configuration
application=myapp
\\ object configuration
dev: {
  host: dev.com
  port: 8080
}
\\ object configuration
test {
  host: test.com
  port: 8080
}
role: {
 id: 24
 name: 'admin'
 active: false
}
\\ array declaration
all: {
    roles: [
    admin
    sales
    support
    ]
}
\\ substitutions
devprofile {
      hostname: dev

    }
 devpath: ${devprofile.hostname}:8080