jq-mode VS jless

Compare jq-mode vs jless and see what are their differences.

jq-mode

Emacs major mode for editing jq queries. (by ljos)

jless

jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data. (by PaulJuliusMartinez)
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Emacs Lisp Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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jq-mode

Posts with mentions or reviews of jq-mode. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-06.
  • jq 1.7 Released
    33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2023
    Seeing this news today, I decided to give jq another try and ended up discovering jq-mode [1] for emacs. It doesn't just support jq filter file editing, it supports jq in org-mode and something else called 'jq-interactively'. This interactive mode allows you to apply jq interactively on a JSON or YAML (with yq) buffer. The buffer contents become the filtered value when you finish editing the jq filter with a return. This is especially impressive to see in yaml files.

    [1] https://github.com/ljos/jq-mode

  • Any JSON viewing/filtering package for Emacs?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 3 May 2022

jless

Posts with mentions or reviews of jless. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-29.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing jq-mode and jless you can also consider the following projects:

restclient.el - HTTP REST client tool for emacs

fx - Terminal JSON viewer & processor

jackson-jq - jq for Jackson Java JSON Processor

jq - Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq]

rsl - reserialise: lossy but versatile conversion between data serialisation formats

jq - Command-line JSON processor

jsonpath-rust - Support for json-path in Rust

swift-mode - Emacs support for Apple's Swift programming language.

jql - A JSON Query Language CLI tool

dasel - Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV files with a single tool. Supports conversion between formats and can be used as a Go package.

dsq - Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more.