Developer
Why a good JSON formatter saves you 10 hours a month
Pretty-print, lint, jq queries, type inference — the developer tooling you should be using.
What a JSON formatter should do
- Pretty-print with 2 or 4-space indentation
- Validate syntax (helpful errors)
- Sort keys (deterministic diff)
- Strip comments + trailing commas
- jq-style filtering
The hidden time saver
Type-inference: paste any JSON, get a TypeScript / Pydantic / Go struct in seconds.
Privacy matters
Never paste production JSON into a tool that stores it. The Elevatools JSON tool (coming soon) runs entirely in-browser.
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