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Also want to point out that the jq cli, brew install jq on mac will also process json by typing "cat yourfile.json | jq .” or interactively with "jq . <<< '{"key": "value”}’”

Just wanted to point this out, because often I don’t want to put my private json data into some rando website.

Also if you don't want `jq` installed, `python` will also do it with `cat your.json | python -m json.tool`

Python no longer comes preinstalled with macOS. Though running any command against /usr/bin/python3 will make macOS prompt you about installing the Xcode Developer Tools (takes two clicks), which does get you Python.

Anyway, jq now ships with macOS Sequoia.

For older versions of macOS, using JavaScript for Automation is preinstalled and gets the job done with a bit more verbosity:

  osascript -l JavaScript -e 'function run(argv) { return JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(argv[0]),null,2) }' '{"key": "value"}'

> the jq cli, brew install jq on Mac

You no longer need to install it with Homebrew. jq ships with macOS Sequoia in /usr/bin.

Obviously this is just `JSON.stringify(e, null, 2)` as a Service, but I think this is a nice app to kick the tires on a frontend stack without actually needed to build anything. Halfway between 'Hello World' and 'TODO app'.

I've seen many of these, i.e. https://www.convertjson.com/json-formatter.htm

While this tool doesn't seem to be anything special, the trend(?) of tools that run entirely in the browser, without any data sent to the server, is a very encouraging one.

There is a level of trust involved as unless you pull down the code, audit it and only ever run it locally, you really have no way of knowing that on any given page load the code hasn't changed.

While I also appreciate tools that don't send data, I don't like the normalization of teaching people to paste (potentially) private data into a browser while blindly trusting that it's not being offloaded to some server somewhere.

It is one of the few things for which i could see the use of a new web document type.

Why? Any IDE can format JSON for you. VS Code even does it out of the box.

this is cool but unless you rank number one for json formatter you probably won't get any users.

Thank You For Making And Sharing :)

Eventually if you get traffic you will have to monetise somehow

It’s a static webpage that runs everything locally. Cost is going to be minimal. Not everything needs to be about money.

insert ads in the json

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