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Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by CodeIsTheEnd » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 10:55 PM UTC

eurasiantiger wrote: post #10

Homebrew?

That's certainly the plan! I've never released a project like this, so I wasn't sure what the process is for adding things to Homebrew, or other package managers. A few people have been really helpful and already added it to Arch Linux and NetBSD's package managers.

This week I just wanted to get the project out there to see if people liked it, so I compiled stuff locally and manually uploaded them to the GitHub releases page. I'll spend some time over the next few weeks figuring out how to automate a lot of these things.

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by ccakes » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 10:57 PM UTC

Nice! I’ve been using jsonfui[1] which does something similar but will definitely give this a go

[1] https://github.com/AdrianSchneider/jsonfui

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by veganjay » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 10:58 PM UTC

Very nice! I also thought "how is this different than jq" - glad I clicked on the link - this will be very helpful in my toolset! Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by TheDong » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 10:59 PM UTC

g105b wrote: post #8

This is a lovely product. I would like to use it and compare to jq, which I already use to query the contents of a JSON structure from the CLI.

> This is a lovely product

It's a lovely project, a lovely tool.

I think calling it a "product" devalues it, implies it's being used to sell something or exploit its users.

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by dan-robertson » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 11:02 PM UTC

This looks great. So far the only tools I have are:

  function jql() { jq -C "$@" | less -R ; }

and an abuse of the preview feature in fzf room let you interactively write a jq query.

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by enriquto » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 11:15 PM UTC

dan-robertson wrote: post #15

This looks great. So far the only tools I have are: function jql() { jq -C "$@" | less -R ; } and an abuse of the preview feature in fzf room let you interactively write a jq query.

Consider adding "gron" to your toolset, for easy json processing in the command line. It is cruder than jq, but it has a nice aura of simplicity that jq lacks.

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by Southland » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 11:21 PM UTC

What are the odds that 3 separate, years-old accounts came out of the woodworks within the last hour to make their only comments of all time to support this post? 3/14 of the only comments as I make this...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30275812

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30280084

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30277488

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by rmetzler » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 11:23 PM UTC

One tool I rely on when I need to understand the structure of JSON is gron. I haven’t tried jless yet, will definitely do, but if you’re looking for inspiration, the gron representation is really useful.

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by yoavm » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 11:24 PM UTC

ccakes wrote: post #12

Nice! I’ve been using jsonfui[1] which does something similar but will definitely give this a go [1] https://github.com/AdrianSchneider/jsonfui

Also worth mentioning: https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by ziftface » Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 11:24 PM UTC

I use a similar tool in a browser all the time, so I definitely have a need for this tool, and this is much better than a browser tool. Thank you for this effort!