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JSON Tools Compared: jq vs jsonpath-plus vs jqjs vs VS Code Extensions
Honest comparison of JSON tooling — jq, JQjs, JSONPath, JSONDiff, VS Code extensions, and this site — by ergonomics, portability, and what each is actually for.
JSON Best Practices: Formatting, Validating, and Shipping JSON Without Self-Inflicted Wounds
Practical JSON hygiene — trailing commas, number precision, date formats, null vs missing, UTF-8, and pretty vs minify decisions that survive code review.
The JSON Cheatsheet: This Tool, jq, and JSONPath on One Screen
Printable cheatsheet — every control on this beautifier, 12 jq one-liners that cover 90% of daily work, the JSONPath equivalent for each, and validate-or-crash snippets for JS and Python.
JSON in JavaScript, 2024–2026: What Actually Changed in JSON.parse
The reviver deep-dive, why 1e999 parses to Infinity but stringify(Infinity) is null, BigInt patterns, structuredClone vs JSON round-trip, and the real shipping status of JSON.parse source access in Node 24 and V8 13.
JSON Patterns and Gotchas: The Bugs That Survive Code Review
Double-encoded payloads, silently truncated strings, prototype-polluting parses, empty-string traps, and the Unicode pairs that break naive substring logic.
NDJSON/JSONL: The Format Every Log Pipeline Secretly Runs On
What newline-delimited JSON is, why streaming and logging pipelines standardised on it, how to pretty-print or grep a JSONL stream without loading it, array↔NDJSON conversions with jq, and the three pitfalls that corrupt files silently.
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