json-tui

Features

• Interactive: Use keyboard or mouse to scroll/expand objects.

• Colors

• Responsive: Adapt to the terminal dimensions. Very long text values are wrapped on several lines.

• Cross-platform: Windows, Linux, MacOS.

• Small: ~0.7MB all included. Zero dependencies.

• The output is displayed inline with the previous commands. Meaning you can still see the json after leaving json-tui.

• (Vim users): Also support j/k for navigation.

• Table view: Turn arrays of objects into tables.

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Features for developers

• simple: Only ~400 line of C++ only. Depends on FTXUI.
• No dependencies to install. Build simply using CMake.

Build:

mkdir build; cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Package

• Binaries: Available in release page.
• Deb package: Available in release page.
• RPM package: Available in release page.
• Arch package: Available as AUR package.
• Snap package: /!\ File access is confined to your home.

sudo snap install json-tui

Contributors:

Contributor	Work
Arthur Sonzogni	Author & Maintainer
Igor Rudenko	Refactoring. Fix buffer size when reading from a file.
Corentin Girard	Arch linux package.
Adrià Arrufat	Fix CMake build caused by GIT_SHALLOW TRUE
You?	(PR are welcomed)

Similar projects:

• https://github.com/antonmedv/fx
• https://github.com/skanehira/tson
• https://github.com/cielong/pyfx