
Stop Fighting Messy JSON: Why I Built a "Zen" Viewer for Developers
The Problem: The "JSON Fatigue" We’ve all been there. You copy a truncated JSON string from a production log, paste it into a web viewer, and... Syntax Error. Or worse, you’re looking at a massive array of 500+ products, and trying to find one specific price value involves expanding nested tree nodes until your fingers hurt. I got tired of tools that were either: Bloated with ads and tracking. Slow when handling large payloads . Inflexible when dealing with "broken" JSON fragments. So, I built Zen-JSON . What Makes Zen-JSON Different? The "Airtable" Experience for JSON Tree views are great for nested objects, but they are terrible for lists. I implemented a Table View that feels like a spreadsheet. If you have an array of objects, you can view them in a high-performance grid, making it 10x faster to scan and compare data. Smart Auto-Fix (The Life-Saver) How many times have you copied a JSON fragment that was missing a closing brace or had trailing commas? Instead of manually fixing the
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