vim-jqplay VS jq-zsh-plugin

Nice!

Let me piggyback to mention the (neo)vim plugin I use for tightening the loop... https://github.com/phelipetls/vim-jqplay

It's great for building large complex queries that will eventually live in scripts, but your zsh plugin seems to hit a real sweet spot of fast feedback for ad-hoc queries too! Huge props!

As I got too much into jq by attempting to port a Vim-only jq playground plugin to be compatible with Neovim as well, I wished for something that would quickly tell me how to access the value under the cursor in a JSON file. I knew treesitter was good at this stuff, so I studied just enough to implement this.

https://github.com/reegnz/jq-zsh-plugin

I find that for big datasets choosing the right format is crucial. Using json-lines format + some shell filtering (eg. head, tail to limit the range, egrep or ripgrep for the more trivial filtering) to reduce the dataset to a couple of megabytes, then use that jq-repl of mine to iterate fast on the final jq expression.

I found that the REPL form factor works really well when you don't exactly know what you're digging for.