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[j-brooke]

If FracturedJson doesn't do quite what you need, or isn't available in your preferred environment, this is the place to talk about alternatives.

[j-brooke]

OjG is a JSON library for the Go language that, among many other features, includes pretty-printing with smart inlining of complex elements.

[ohler55]

FracturedJson does a nice job of formatting output for the areas it covers.

[j-brooke]

NeatJSON provides a variety of formatting options, including smart inlining based on length. It's available for Ruby, Lua, and JavaScript.

[jon-freed]

• https://github.com/lydell/json-stringify-pretty-compact
• jq with --compact-output, see https://jqlang.org/manual/#invoking-jq
• https://github.com/deftek/json_pp

(I'm not recommending any of these; just cross-referencing)

[j-brooke]

Prettier is probably the best known formatting library anywhere. With JSON, here's what I've observed. (Please correct me if I'm wrong - I may have missed some settings.)

• If the source document is already expand expanded, it won't compress it. It likes to leave any line breaks where they are.
• If the source is condensed (minified, for example) it will inline objects/arrays to fit in the defined line length. (I don't think it considers complexity.)

[smmilton]

I'm not a typescript guy, but loved the idea you had with FracturedJson in general. Since my preferred language is Perl, here is a Perl re-implementation of the FracturedJson 5.0 library, along with a perl CLI tool to use it.

https://github.com/smmilton/FracturedJsonPerl