It looks like it's open source and you can run it locally if you don't trust a third party website (and you probably shouldn't, depending on the data you paste in there): https://github.com/apihero-run/jsonhero-web
JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization
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Re: JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Forking perfectly functional browser-based web app into Electron apps is an irritating trend with very limited benefits. Some apps exist as Electron apps because they require native OS access, this app does not, therefore there is no reason to do so. Porting to Electron would be trivial but in doing so you incur the following ramifications: - the user has yet another instance of Chromium running on their device. - th…
Interestingly enough, when I want the compartmentalization experience that comes from an “App” on macOS, I turn to… Microsoft Edge. Edge has a nifty little feature that lets you “Appify” a website. I mostly find this useful for company-required PWAs, and most-of-all, Microsoft Teams. The Edge-“Appified” MS Teams on macOS is leaps and bounds more performant than the “Native” (Electron) MS Teams apps on macOS (consumes…
Didn't know that about Edge, thanks!
For other browsers (incl Edge) Fluid does the same for me (http://fluidapp.com (not affiliated))
After opening a few emails: Outlook MacOs app: 922 MB Outlook PWA via Fluid: 42 MB
Re: JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization
#93Tried it out on some REST response from a local test server. And, well, as much as I applaud the effort, I also think that I'll stick to my text editor for browsing JSON data and to jq for extracting data from it. My text editor because it's easy to perfom free text search and to fold sections, and that's all that I need to get an overview. Jq because it's such a brilliantly sharp knife for carving out the exact data…
Also check out jqp (jq REPL) for when you need a few tries to get the right jq selector: https://github.com/noahgorstein/jqp
Looks a bit like fzf combined with jq.
Re: JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization
#94If anyone wants to try it out, but doesn't want to send them your Json, here's an example of some real world data https://jsonhero.io/j/t0Vp6NafO2p2 For me, this is harder to use than reading the JSON in a colour text editor such as VSCode. I'm getting less information on the page, and its harder to scan, but that might be because I'm used to reading JSON.
Thanks for the link!
And yes I feel the same. For me its also easier to read it either on raw form or in VsCode.
Re: JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization
#95My number one requirement for a tool like this is that the JSON content never leaves the machine it's on. I can only imagine the kind of personal information or proprietary internal data that has been unwittingly transmitted due to tools like this. If my objective was to gain the secrets of various worldwide entities, one of the first things I would do is set up seemingly innocent Pastebins, JSON checkers, online fil…
Even more, it has to work completely offline! And if it makes ANY network calls, it is a huge red flag for some!
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#96Hahaha - I get this when opening it in an HN browser on my phone: TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'getItem') at u (https://jsonhero.io/build/_shared/chunk-LYGVB3WT.js:1:161) at https://jsonhero.io/build/_shared/chunk-LYGVB3WT.js:1:407 at Gf (https://jsonhero.io/build/_shared/chunk-PZ2Z7HGX.js:9:6560) at L.unstable_runWithPriority (https://jsonhero.io/build/_shared/chunk-PZ2Z7HGX.js:1:4026) at rn (h…
We definitely need to get better with our error messages! Thanks for the report, we'll look into it! What phone OS are you on?
I got a similar error when I first landed on your website from Firefox on macOS.
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#97As far as I'm concerned, JSON doesn't suck! For all its shortcomings, I still find it clear and easy to read, and when gzipped, it compresses reasonably well over the wire, especially when you have a bunch of repeated property names in arrays etc.
Nice tool, but like others have said, I'm pretty comfortable reading JSON in my editor.
Re: JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eric here (one of the creators of JSON Hero) and this is a really good point. We built JSON Hero earlier this year and partly wanted to use it to try out Cloudflare Workers and Remix, hence the decision to store in KV and use that kind of architecture. We're keen to update JSON Hero with better local-only support for this reason, and to make it easier to self-host or run locally.
If the vscode extension did it all locally, I'd 100% install in an instant!
To add to this, I'd probably pay for this too, if it wasn't too expensive.
Re: JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization
#99If anyone wants to try it out, but doesn't want to send them your Json, here's an example of some real world data https://jsonhero.io/j/t0Vp6NafO2p2 For me, this is harder to use than reading the JSON in a colour text editor such as VSCode. I'm getting less information on the page, and its harder to scan, but that might be because I'm used to reading JSON.
Re: JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization
#100As far as I'm concerned, JSON doesn't suck! For all its shortcomings, I still find it clear and easy to read, and when gzipped, it compresses reasonably well over the wire, especially when you have a bunch of repeated property names in arrays etc. Nice tool, but like others have said, I'm pretty comfortable reading JSON in my editor.
If JSON had comments, I'd be fine with it.