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I'm not really clear on what the value-add is here. When is one needing to "visualise" JSON in this way, without editing it? Does it really help that much?

Generally I just open in VS Code, reformat and use search etc.

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I can think of one valuable use-case: parsing through JSON responses for APIs with poor fields/response documentation -- especially if you have to parse through a ton of information.

Still way more readable than XML.

  > Still way more readable than XML.

AJAX should have been just AJ.

I think this is harder to parse than just having a well formatted structure in a text editor

I could see a tool like this being really useful on my web game projects, where I would like artists/animators making contributions.

to make sense of API responses

Why you need this tool for that? I think I would need longer with it as without, comparing to a nice formatted text in an editor (or maybe even the Firefox developer tools, which also format JSON very well).

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