How to Install and Use JSON Hero – A Powerful JSON Viewer

Introduction

JSON Hero is a lightweight, user‑friendly JSON utility that provides a clean UI and extra features to make reading and understanding JSON documents easier and more intuitive.

Supported Views

The tool offers several viewing modes, including column view (inspired by macOS Finder), tree view, and raw JSON view, allowing users to explore JSON data in the format that best suits them.

Local Installation

To run JSON Hero locally, clone the repository and install dependencies:

<code>git clone https://github.com/jsonhero-io/jsonhero-web.git
cd jsonhero-web
npm install
npm start</code>

Then open

http://localhost:8787

in a browser.

Online Usage

Visit https://jsonhero.io/ , drag a JSON file onto the page or paste JSON or a JSON URL into the provided form.

Key Features

Automatic content preview for strings and values.

Search within JSON data.

Generate shareable links after editing or reviewing data.

Integration with VS Code extensions.

Project Repository

The source code is available at https://github.com/jsonhero-io/jsonhero-web (over 11 K stars).