JSON live editor chrome extension

Version: 1.2.1
JSON live editor
Live editor for JSON documents
3.43 Based on 14 user rates

What is JSON live editor?

JSON live editor is a json extension for chrome. it's a free extension and is featured in Developer Tools, it has 1,000+ active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 3.43 from 14 rated user, last update is 2079 days ago.


What’s new in version 1.2.1?

                Little online and offline HTML, CSS and JavaScript code editor for messing around with JSON documents. For example, this tool will be useful if you want to manipulate and display JSON data outputted by a REST API. 

The editor will be activated automatically in the browser if a JSON document is detected (e.g. with http://jsondoc.eu01.aws.af.cm/api/jsondoc).

Features :
* HTML / CSS / JavaScript editor with syntax highlighting, search, replace and autocomplete
* Live code preview
* Drop code from File System
* Save code to File System
* Versioning using browser’s history and local storage
* Easy sharing via URL
* JSON Validator (invalid JSON is not editable)
* Key shortcuts:
- cmd + s / ctrl + s => live update / save
- cmd + e / ctrl + e => toggle preview / code editor 
- ctrl + space => autocomplete
- cmd + f / ctrl + f => search and highlight code
- cmd + g / ctrl + g => find next
- shift + cmd + g / shift + ctrl + g => find previous
- shift + ctrl + f / cmd + option + f => replace
- shift + ctrl + r / shift + cmd + option + f => replace all

(Note: this extension might clash with other JSON highlighters/beautifiers, like ‘JSONView’, ‘Pretty JSON’ or ‘Sight’ – disable those before trying this).

Credits go to Mrdoob, Callum Locke and CodeMirror folks.            

How to install JSON live editor?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.


Preview of JSON live editor


Technical Features:

  • Latest Version: 1.2.1
  • Requirements: Windows Chrome, Mac Chrome
  • License: Free
  • Latest update: Friday, March 8th, 2019
  • Author: Stephan Ringel

JSON live editor Available languages:

English.


FAQ


Reviews of json live editor:


Robert Delaney December 13th, 2020
Robert Delaney

it wont let me edit anything


Rubat September 15th, 2016
Rubat

For file// links, shows the HTML for some reason, doesn't work on online JSON stuff that doesn't identify itself as JSON content type

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