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a blazing-fast app to navigate your JSON files

13 starsRust

JSON GUI, a fast GUI to view, navigate and process JSON files

by g3z·Mar 18, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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AI Analysis

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Rust-based JSON viewer with lazy loading, but VS Code extensions already exist.

Strengths
  • •Lazy tree loading handles large files instantly without freezing the UI thread.
  • •Parallel full-text search using Rayon significantly speeds up finding specific nested values.
  • •Object search supports complex nested property paths with multiple conditional filtering operators.
Weaknesses
  • •macOS-only focus limits adoption compared to many other existing cross-platform web tools.
  • •Crowded category with established free alternatives like popular JSONView and command-line jq.
Target Audience

Developers working with large API responses or log files

Similar To

JSON Editor Online · VS Code · jq

Post Description

Me and my friend Claude (but mostly him) created this little gui to processa and navigate big json files. It's blazing fast, its core is built in Rust and the UI is made in React (via tauri). I hope you like it and I am open for suggestions and or bug reports.

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