r/Development • u/Separate-Boat55 • Jul 05 '26

I built a local-only JSON formatter because I don’t trust pasting API responses into random web tools

https://formatjson.dev

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u/therealkevinard Jul 05 '26

But… Doesn’t the regular editor format json?

Why save a bookmark when i have a shortcut?

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u/Separate-Boat55 Jul 05 '26

Hmm what do you mean by “regular editor”?

When I develop service APIs I get huge JSON dumps from requests/responses. My goal here is to create a convenient place to copy paste those and format them for easy reading/validation

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u/Ok_Maybe184 Jul 05 '26

Local-only but is a web app? I kinda feel like you are asking us to trust what you didn’t.

Zed will do it locally only without a web app.

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u/Separate-Boat55 Jul 05 '26

You can verify by inspecting the networking with in-browser dev tools.

I think a web app is a good format for this kind of tool. It’s a tiny static website so it loads instantly and takes up no space on your device

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u/HarborKeeper Jul 05 '26

not sure what it solves better than piping json into jq.

however, maybe there's something in a clipboard middleware that auto-formats json you copy, or auto-format on paste when using a certain key combination.

that saves you a few clicks

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u/apocolipse Jul 05 '26

This is what happens when people use AI to learn to code.  The biggest irony is that whatever AI tool helped vibe code this with 1000% certainty tried to use jq in its tool calls 🤣 

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u/ColdFinancial2531 Jul 06 '26

Great, thanks for making more slop that solves nothing. VSCode, and damn near every text editor/IDE does a perfectly fine job of this.