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📣 xg15

What are good GUI tools for editing JSON?


Hi everyone,

there are many extremely useful JSON viewers around, as well as tools to transform JSON on the command line (e.g. JQ which is currently mentioned in one of the frontpage posts again)

However, I've not yet found a lot of tools that let you visually edit a JSON file.

Of course you can use a text editor, but I believe dedicated JSON support could make life a lot easier. Some things I imagine such a tool could do would be e.g.:

- ensure the document is always proper JSON

- let you cut/copy/paste subtrees

- take advantage of the JSON structure for navigation (e.g. using commands like "go to next entry" / "go to previous entry" / "go up one level")

- automatically escape/unescape strings

Do you guys know if anything like this exists?


  👤 ChrisGranger Accepted Answer ✓
I've used https://jsoneditoronline.org/ for minor edits occasionally, but I'm not sure if it would meet your needs.