Extension for Visual Studio Code - A powerful tool for comparing and visualizing differences between JSON objects, featuring an intuitive interface with advanced formatting, error handling, and real-time diff generation.

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Sort then compare JSON files.

Extension for Visual Studio Code - A VS Code extension that provides a side-by-side view for comparing and visualizing differences between JSON files or text. Leverages VS Code's built-in diffing and JSON formatting capabilities

l13DiffFocus - The value is true if a diff panel has focus. l13DiffListFocus - The value is true if the list view has focus. l13DiffInputFocus - The value is true if the left or right input has focus. l13DiffSearchFocus - The value is true if the search input has focus. The extension is written with security in mind. Paths will be sanitized before they are used and if the file .vscode/settings.json is available in a workspace the content will be parsed with the native JSON parser to get the values of l13Diff.exclude.

October 10, 2022 - What is the best way to compare 2 large JSON files in order to create a new JSON composed of the selected objects? Is there a VSCode extension that can do this? The specific problem: We have 2 large JSON files which were derived from 2 physically different systems.

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Programming language aware diffs for Visual Studio Code.

October 4, 2024 - This extension sorts JSON files before comparison to make it easier to spot the differences in JSON files.

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Show a visual diff for modified JSON files in Source Control.

A small, zero-dependency text differencing library extracted from the open source VS Code - micnil/vscode-diff

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Diff 2 opened files with ease. Because running `code --diff path1 path2` is too slow.

November 3, 2021 - When opening a file that ends with .json, VS Code provides features to make it simpler to write or modify the file's content.

SemanticDiff helps you review code diffs in VS Code faster by hiding irrelevant changes, detecting moved code, and highlighting refactorings.

Validate, format, and compare two JSON documents. See the differences between the objects instead of just the new lines and mixed up properties.

"description": "Take a diff of 2 files", "version": "0.0.1", "publisher": "jinsihou", "engines": { "vscode": "^1.10.0" }, "categories": [ "Other" ], "keywords": [ "vscode", "diff" ], "activationEvents": [ "onCommand:extension.diffTool.diffToolLeft", "onCommand:extension.diffTool.diffToolRight" ], "main": "./extension", "contributes": { "commands": [ { "command": "extension.diffTool.diffToolLeft", "title": "DiffTool: Mark 1st file" },

March 10, 2023 - This guide will tell you everything you need to know about comparing files in Visual Studio Code. Learn the different ways to select files for comparison and the tricks you can use to get better diffs.

% json-diff --help Usage: json-diff [-vCjfonskKp] first.json second.json Arguments: <first.json> Old file <second.json> New file General options: -v, --verbose Output progress info -C, --[no-]color Colored output -j, --raw-json Display raw JSON encoding of the diff -f, --full Include the equal sections of the document, not just the deltas --max-elisions COUNT Max number of ...s to show in a row in "deltas" mode (before collapsing them) -o, --output-keys KEYS Always print this comma separated keys, with their value, if they are part of an object with any diff -x, --exclude-keys KEYS Exclude these comma separated keys from comparison on both files -n, --output-new-only Output only the updated and new key/value pairs (without marking them as such).

November 28, 2017 - Select “Compare with ‘settings.json’” options, you should be able to view a side by side compare window with color highlighting on the changes as shown in image below.

VS Code has a very powerful diff tool. This quick post is going to teach you how to perform diffs (compare files) in VS Code.