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JSON Formatter (Free, no ads, no signups)

14 points by triviatroy 2y ago

cranberryturkey 2y ago
this is cool but unless you rank number one for json formatter you probably won't get any users.
hankchinaski 2y ago
Eventually if you get traffic you will have to monetise somehow
- latexr 2y ago
  It’s a static webpage that runs everything locally. Cost is going to be minimal. Not everything needs to be about money.
  - throwaway14356 2y ago
    insert ads in the json
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cluckindan 2y ago
Why? Any IDE can format JSON for you. VS Code even does it out of the box.
mbb70 2y ago
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'.
daft_pink 2y ago
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.
- Macha 2y ago
  Also if you don't want `jq` installed, `python` will also do it with `cat your.json | python -m json.tool`
  - latexr 2y ago
    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"}'
- latexr 2y ago
  > 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.
xnx 2y ago
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.
- Rychard 2y ago
  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.
  - throwaway14356 2y ago
    It is one of the few things for which i could see the use of a new web document type.
disqard 2y ago
Thank You For Making And Sharing :)
ddgflorida 2y ago
I've seen many of these, i.e. https://www.convertjson.com/json-formatter.htm https://www.convertjson.com/json-formatter.htm

14 points by triviatroy 2y ago

cranberryturkey 2y ago

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

hankchinaski 2y ago

Eventually if you get traffic you will have to monetise somehow

latexr 2y ago
It’s a static webpage that runs everything locally. Cost is going to be minimal. Not everything needs to be about money.
- throwaway14356 2y ago
  insert ads in the json

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cluckindan 2y ago

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

mbb70 2y ago

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'.

daft_pink 2y ago

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.

Macha 2y ago
Also if you don't want `jq` installed, `python` will also do it with `cat your.json | python -m json.tool`
- latexr 2y ago
  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"}'
latexr 2y ago
> 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.

xnx 2y ago

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.

Rychard 2y ago
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.
- throwaway14356 2y ago
  It is one of the few things for which i could see the use of a new web document type.

disqard 2y ago

Thank You For Making And Sharing :)

ddgflorida 2y ago

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