Homebridge: Use JSON5 for parsing config.json

[mgcrea]

Before releasing the next version, it would be awesome to use JSON5 to parse the config.json, it would allow use to use comments inside JSON and would easily handle many errors (trailing commas) that currently break homebridge. Could work on a PR if wanted.

[donavanbecker]

Hey @mgcrea, thanks for the suggestion. We will look into this. Currently the Homebridge UI config editor already implements this to automatically fix some syntax issues on save, See Config UI X v4.14.0.

[mgcrea]

Sounds good and it probably makes sense in a UI, but as a plugin developer I would not want my comments to be stripped out by an auto-fix. My main need is to be able to quickly toggle config lines/blocks using comments.

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