Hey everyone!
I recently made a little tool called JviewSON, and I thought it might come in handy for anyone who works with JSON files regularly. Itโs simple and designed for viewing and analyzing JSON files without any unnecessary extras.
A few key features:
Displays JSON data in a clean and easy-to-read structure.
Built-in search to help you find what you need fast.
Automatically updates if the JSON file changes in the background.
Itโs view-only, so no risk of accidentally editing your data.
If youโre curious, you can check it out on itch.io, where you can also run a browser-based version without downloading:
https://pocdev.itch.io/jviewson
Or if you prefer to dig into the code (made in Godot) hereโs the GitHub repo:
https://github.com/andreas-volz/JviewSON
Would love to hear what you think or if you have any ideas for improvement!
Videos
Great online tools:
json.parser.online.fr (Online JSON Parser)
Excellent for detecting invalid json, and shows both json-parse and eval methods.
jsonlint.com (JSONLint - The JSON Validator)
Open-source, has excellent validation of detecting invalid json, and beautifies JSON.
web.archive.org/.../chris.photobooks.com (JSON Visualization)
Shows json as html tables and is good for detecting invalid json
jsonviewer.stack.hu (Online JSON Viewer)
Nice if you want to traverse json as a tree with properties (but bad for invalid json)
Downloadable tool built on .NET:
JSON Viewer
Has a stand-alone viewer similar to the online viewer of the same name, but also has plugins for Fiddler 2 and Visual Studio 2005
- For mac: VisualJSON on appstore
- For web browser: JSONView as plugin
- Firefox: JSONView
- Chrome: JSONView
- For Terminal: httpie
want to view a huge .json file (to be precise, .jsonl) in read-only mode(if possible). A write stream to that file hasn't been closed yet, and a process running on my pc is constantly writing to it. I tried sublime text to open the file, but it seems to force a refresh every time whenever a chunk is written to the .jsonl. In contrast, vsc doesn't refresh as long as I keep focus.
I'm not trying to edit it literally, so it would be nice if it was optimized for read-only.