What are some neat tools for working with JSON in ...
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Ivan Reese
08/20/2021, 2:21 PM
What are some neat tools for working with JSON in a visual / spatial way?
I’ve got a few thousand DB records with cross-references, and I’d like to be able to dig through them interactively.
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Tudor Girba
08/20/2021, 2:26 PMYou could use Glamorous Toolkit for that.
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Tak Tran
08/20/2021, 2:27 PMThere’s https://github.com/wellsjo/JSON-Splora (but not that interactive). I generally use jq directly on the command line (though again, not very interactive). Would love to hear about alternatives too 🙂
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Kirill Chernyshov
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Tony Fortunato
08/20/2021, 6:35 PMAre you looking specifically to visualize the "cross-reference structure" / be able to jump around between records via the references?
Tony Fortunato
08/20/2021, 6:40 PM(Asking because I think there is a lot out there in terms of being able to look at raw JSON and collapse / expand individual records, but if you want something to view this is more of a network structure / hypermedia where you can visualize the network structure, it's probably going to be really dependent on how the JSON is formatted.)
As one example of a visual tool for "networks of things referencing each other in JSON", there is the cytoscape library, which is pretty awesome, and support a "JSON Graph" format. Worth looking at if you control how records go from DB to JSON
https://js.cytoscape.org/
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Jack Rusher
08/29/2021, 8:35 AMUnhelpfully: your daily driver programming environment should make this trivial (which is a variation on what @Tudor Girba said).
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Cole
10/10/2021, 2:43 AMLate, but could be helpful for others browsing.
I really like tools like Data Voyager 2
https://vega.github.io/voyager2/ (seems to work in Chrome/not Safari)
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