r/json

Questions regarding workflows

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)?

u/False_Sample_8117 — 7 days ago

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Tried making JSON search feel like object navigation instead of text search

Hey r/json,

I’ve been working on a small JSON viewer and wanted to get feedback from people who actually inspect JSON regularly.

The idea was not just “another formatter,” but a viewer that makes exploring nested JSON faster when the payload gets annoying.

I tried adding a few workflow details I don’t usually find together in JSON viewers:

Search by key, value, or full-ish path like users[0].name
Matching fields auto-expand, highlight, and scroll into view
Hover a key to see its full path and inferred type
Copy a single value, a whole subtree, or just the field path
Everything runs locally in the browser, so pasted JSON is not uploaded

Here it is: https://insighttrack.in/tools/json-viewer/

I’d love blunt feedback on:

Is the path search actually useful, or does it feel overbuilt?
What’s missing compared to the JSON viewer you normally use?
Would you trust a browser-only JSON tool for real payloads?
Any UX detail that feels awkward when inspecting nested data?

Not trying to spam the sub; genuinely looking for JSON-user feedback before I keep building more around this.

Thanks.

u/Cultural-Opening-754 — 9 days ago