The title is slightly misleading, as I'm referring to projects you would consider "good enough" to be offered as usable products.
There are many posts here about the difficulties with marketing, making the point that building the product itself is the easy part.
So, my question is whether you have ever left a project solely due to the marketing leading nowhere?
Would anyone mind sharing some of your workflows involving JSON? I'm curious about different contexts in which people work with this format. What do you find the most difficult to deal with? Are there certain tools you swear to, that you wouldn't survive without?
Do you often need to generate example JSON for the systems you work with? Or maybe do some specific formatting or querying (like with JMESPath)?
This is mainly an online tool for developers and others who work with JSON.
I have dealt quite a lot with the JSON format, and I missed a proper workbench with more tools available at one place. Usually I needed to visit many different websites in order to achieve what I wanted, such as converting to and from JSON, proper visualization, and syntax fixing (which I couldn't find a proper tool for).
JSON Studio is currently in beta, and will be free to use during this beta period. New functionality is added continuously, but I need some feedback. I figured instead of developing this for years, and never seeing it released, I'd make the beta public and incorporate a proper feedback system. So that's what I did.
It's made to be a professional tool, in the sense that it's not made for simply formatting your text; it supports proper schema validation, JMESPath querying, has a solid repair engine (which I'm very proud of), structure visualizer, and currently handles up to ~5mb texts.
It uses zero-knowledge encryption and all data is hosted within the EU. It is fully GDPR-compliant. I would love some feedback on this project.
Here is the site: https://www.jsonstudio.net
I was working on a separate project where I needed to support export and import of many different formats, and I realized libraries for this is somewhat cumbersome to use as they all have different APIs. Every one of them is used in a slightly different manner, so I wanted to unify it into one easy-to-use API.
I wanted something pragmatic and readable:
const output = convert(input).from("json").to("yaml");
It currently supports conversion between any of the following formats:
I will be adding more formats soon. It's possible to pass additional options as well to the converters, such as the CSV delimiter, YAML version, JSON indentation, etc.
Rather than reinventing the wheel, I leveraged the good battle-tested parsers and serializers internally, so the conversions themselves are solid.
Check it out:
GitHub: https://github.com/PelleS0205/polyform
npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/polyform-tools
There are usage examples in the GitHub repository, which are updated often.
I'd love to get some feedback on the library, as I want to make this even more useful for as many developers as possible.