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interactive JSON filter using jq

Shown by aqny on Mar 19, 2024. Click the card to turn it over.

373points

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7 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score +0.32.

Idea: 6 for, 1 against

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Filter auto-completion is a killer feature
From 1 comment
- If you use Emacs, there is also jq-mode. But jnv's filter auto-completion is really a killer feature for me. [1] https://github.com/ljos/jq-mode
  gudzpoz on HN
Useful for interactively building jq queries
From 1 comment
- This looks great as a way of interactively build jq queries.
  roydivision on HN

Very slow on medium-sized JSON (16MB)
From 1 comment
- Very cool, small nitpicks: - Very slow for medium-sized JSON (16MB) - Fonts are too dark (made a PR) Looking for performant alternatives, I found fx (https://fx.wtf) which…
  croemer on HN
Unclear advantage over gron and other existing tools
From 1 comment
- While the tool seems interesting, I wonder if it truly offers a significant advantage over existing solutions like `gron`. More benchmarking and feature comparisons would be…
  nkko on HN

Support for writing filtered results to a file or stdout
From 1 comment
- This is very cool! Any plans to make it also be able to write the filtered result to a file/stdout? I'd love to contribute that, but I'm only through 3 chapters of the Rust book.
  CacheThrasher on HN
Highlight matched keys while typing
From 1 comment
- Pretty cool little tool. It would be even cooler if it highlighted matched keys while typing.
  akafazov on HN
Windows support
From 1 comment
- no windows?
  malkia on HN

How to copy the filter output
From 1 comment
- How to copy the filter data?
  userb on HN
Difference from jiq and ijq
From 1 comment
- what is the difference between this and jiq and ijq?
  neeh0 on HN

jless
From 1 comment
- This looks great! looks very close to jless https://github.com/PaulJuliusMartinez/jless
  guptarohit on HN
fx
From 2 comments
- Very cool, small nitpicks: - Very slow for medium-sized JSON (16MB) - Fonts are too dark (made a PR) Looking for performant alternatives, I found fx (https://fx.wtf) which…
  croemer on HN
- I would want everyone to know about the alternative, "fx" You can do a lot more with it like map filter reduce etc and the semantics are closer to what you already know. Supports…
  evnix on HN
fzf-based jq wrappers
From 2 comments
- yes, see https://github.com/reegnz/jq-zsh-plugin
  hprotagonist on HN
- Very much so [0]. [0]: https://dev.to/pbnj/fzf-jq-interactive-jq-15no
  jiehong on HN
ijq
From 2 comments
- I personally use IJQ https://sr.ht/~gpanders/ijq/
  peauc on HN
- Somewhat related: ijq https://sr.ht/~gpanders/ijq/
  robjwells on HN
gron
From 1 comment
- ... which seems quite similar to gron [1]? [1] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
  samuell on HN