rtillawork / json-tui

A JSON terminal UI made in C++

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 300 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

• Snap package: sudo snap install json-tui. /!\ File access is confined to your home.
• Deb package: Available in release page.
• RPM package: Available in release page.
• Arch linux package: Available as AUR package.
• Binaries: Available in release page.

Authors:

• Arthur Sonzogni
• You? (PR are welcomed)

Similar projects:

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