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This is awesome!

I sometimes use jiq for this purpose, but I don't like that it tries to evaluate the query as you type, pressing enter exits the interactive session, and that you can't see the source and output at the same time. Jid has similar issues.

Jqp seems to solve all of these problems, plus it has syntax highlighting. I'm going to use this tool all the time.

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I've played with jid in jiq and IIRC they were very slow with large inputs since they re-parse the JSON blob every time the query changes. I wonder if this solves that problem--I'll bookmark it and find out next time I need to wrangle some JSON!

wow, thanks so much for the kind words! Didn't think people would see this, let alone for it to show up on Hacker News haha. Hope you get a lot of use out of it!

A feature that would be cool:

I often write some pretty complex jq queries. Once a query starts getting complex, I like to spread it over multiple lines for better readability. It would be cool if Jqp would let me insert newlines by pressing Shift+Enter.

Yeah for sure! Initially I had tried to do something like this, hit a roadblock and just went with the 1 line input in order to get a v1 out. Definitely something I'd consider as I continue to iterate on it.

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