JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs • Hacker News Board

Re: JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs

#71

Post by Canada » Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 4:45 PM UTC

Cool, but when I loaded something that would help to visualize (a trace of a single block of ethereum) it just died. The JSON is 374KB.

Re: JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs

#72

Post by elbajo » Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 4:56 PM UTC

Ideally this is something that could run locally but it looks great thank you!

I wish these kind of projects would show up when searching "Online JSON visualization". Current SEO logic means that website like this have pretty much no chance of making it. Would love to be proven wrong though!

Re: JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs

#73

Post by spinaker » Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 4:56 PM UTC

The arrays are not presented correctly. Each element in the array points to the parent, rather than being grouped together. Ditto for Objects (key/value pairs).

Since JSON is just a simple tree structure without cycles, the JSON "visualization" doesn't buy you much that indented text formatting can't already give you.

Re: JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs

#74

Post by ssalka » Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 5:34 PM UTC

Opening on iOS I see an "Incompatible Device" notice on the page. Does the demo only work on desktop?

Re: JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs

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Post by pvorb » Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 5:34 PM UTC

exabyte wrote: post #42

afandian wrote: post #28

There’s a message saying “incompatible device”. I’m using an iPhone.

Same but with Android, makes sense this would be more of a desktop experience though

A hint on which kind of device is considered compatible would've been nice. I didn't expect this to be desktop-only.

Re: JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs

#76

Post by jimmar » Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC

Very cool! This is close to being a perfect mind-map creation tool. Text wrapping would be nice. It can be done manually by adding \n, but that has to be done manually.

Re: JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs

#77

Post by samstave » Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 6:12 PM UTC

btown wrote: post #69

solardev wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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We prefer to call them contextually preferred mountaintop suggestions. To suggest otherwise would be to suggest that our entire industry is built on nothing more than peak comedy.

Peak comedy is a slippery slope. Just be careful to not trigger an avalanche of puns, because that can snowball into something unstoppable, then everything goes downhill fast!

Re: JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs

#78

Post by haidev » Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 7:03 PM UTC

Canada wrote: post #71

Cool, but when I loaded something that would help to visualize (a trace of a single block of ethereum) it just died. The JSON is 374KB.

I tried to use it once to visualize a 114K lines JSON it simply just died. I even tried to run it locally but no luck.

Re: JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs

#79

Post by yomkippur » Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 7:13 PM UTC

lelandfe wrote: post #55

helsinkiandrew wrote: post #5

I thought this was a new feature in Microsoft Visio initially. Would “JSON Visio” be a breach of their trademark? https://trademarks.justia.com/742/75/visio-74275413.html

Only matters if Microsoft sues. GitHub-owner era Microsoft tends to want to stay in the open source community’s good graces. (Plus I’m sure the owner would just change the name if MS asked, anyway) That being said, this is also a diagramming tool… I probably would recommend changing it

gonna be tough to prove damages

Re: JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs

#80

Post by helmholtz » Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 7:20 PM UTC

samstave wrote: post #77

btown wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We prefer to call them contextually preferred mountaintop suggestions. To suggest otherwise would be to suggest that our entire industry is built on nothing more than peak comedy.

Peak comedy is a slippery slope. Just be careful to not trigger an avalanche of puns, because that can snowball into something unstoppable, then everything goes downhill fast!

High-brow humour is not HN's strong suit it would appear :)