| jid | jj | |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | 9 | |
| 6,937 | 1,997 | |
| 0.4% | 0.9% | |
| 0.0 | 2.6 | |
| about 1 month ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
jid
Posts with mentions or reviews of jid.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-26.
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Zq: An Easier (and Faster) Alternative to Jq
It took me a while to grok jq, but now that I do I kinda like it? I don't think I want to learn yet another thing.
I do like tools that complement/supplement jq though, like jid: https://github.com/simeji/jid
- Ask HN: Local Tools for Viewing JSON
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jless - Command Line JSON Viewer
Link for the lazy: https://github.com/simeji/jid
- FX: An interactive alternative to jq to process JSON
- Tips on Adding JSON Output to Your CLI App
- jid
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How to navigate an API from the terminal
If you're trying to work out the structure and content of an API's JSON responses, you can keep paging through the documentation and the paged output of less or you can reach for more precise JSON parsing tools such as, jq and jid.
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Help using JQ interactively?
Yeah, I love me some jq, and my first reaction to the JSON tools page was 'What do these bring to the table that jq doesn't?". Gron and Jid changed my mind.
- My favorite cli/tui programs:
- Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
jj
Posts with mentions or reviews of jj.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-18.
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Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them
Not a fork but a similar program I've been using: https://github.com/tidwall/jj?tab=readme-ov-file#performance
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Git is simply too hard
There was another project called jj (JSON Stream Editor) mentioned here recently:
https://github.com/tidwall/jj
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 29 may 2023
- Jj: JSON Stream Editor
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Jq Needs Contributors
Have you {used/read about} jj[1] as an alternative?
[1] - https://github.com/tidwall/jj/
- I ported Gjson to Rust.
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List of JSON tools for command line
jj is also really good. Someone posted it as a comment, but it didn't make the original article.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing jid and jj you can also consider the following projects:
fx - Terminal JSON viewer & processor
kafka-native - Kafka broker compiled to native using Quarkus and GraalVM.
jiq - jid on jq - interactive JSON query tool using jq expressions
super - An analytics database that puts JSON and relational tables on equal footing
DB-GPT - AI Native Data App Development framework with AWEL(Agentic Workflow Expression Language) and Agents