uJson - JSON Formatter & Viewer

A lightweight Chrome extension for formatting and viewing JSON data

Features • Installation • Usage • Development

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✨ Features

• 🚀 Auto Detection - Automatically formats JSON when visiting API endpoints
• 🌳 Tree View - Collapsible tree structure with line numbers
• 🎨 Syntax Highlighting - Color-coded JSON keys, values, and types
• 🌙 Dark Mode - Toggle between light and dark themes
• 📋 Copy & Edit - One-click copy, built-in JSON editor
• 🔧 Format Tools - Format, compress, escape, and unescape JSON
• 🐍 Python Dict Support - Parse Python dict format (single quotes, True/False/None)
• ➕ Trailing Comma - Tolerant parsing of trailing commas

📸 Screenshots

Viewer	Editor	Dark Mode

📦 Installation

Chrome Web Store

👉 Install from Chrome Web Store

Manual Installation

1. Download or clone this repository
2. Run npm install && npm run build
3. Open chrome://extensions/ in Chrome
4. Enable "Developer mode"
5. Click "Load unpacked" and select the dist folder

🎯 Usage

Auto Format

Simply visit any URL that returns JSON data - the extension will automatically detect and format it.

Manual Editor

1. Click the extension icon in toolbar
2. Paste your JSON in the left panel
3. View formatted result in the right panel

Toolbar Actions

Button	Action
↑/↓	Collapse/Expand one level
⇈/⇊	Collapse/Expand all
📋	Copy to clipboard
🌙/☀️	Toggle theme

Keyboard Shortcuts

• ⌘/Ctrl + F - Format JSON

🛠 Development

Prerequisites

• Node.js 16+
• npm or yarn

Setup

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Development build with watch
npm run dev

# Production build
npm run build

Project Structure

ujson/
├── manifest.json          # Extension manifest
├── package.json           # Dependencies
├── vite.config.js         # Build config
├── viewer.html            # Auto-format page
├── editor.html            # Editor page
├── icons/                 # Extension icons
├── src/
│   ├── background.js      # Service worker
│   ├── content.js         # Content script
│   ├── ViewerApp.vue      # Viewer component
│   ├── EditorApp.vue      # Editor component
│   ├── components/        # Vue components
│   │   ├── JsonViewer.vue
│   │   ├── JsonNode.vue
│   │   └── JsonValue.vue
│   ├── utils/
│   │   └── jsonFormat.js  # JSON utilities
│   └── styles/
│       └── theme.css      # Theme variables
└── dist/                  # Build output

🔧 Tech Stack

• Framework: Vue 3 + Composition API
• Build Tool: Vite
• Extension: Chrome Manifest V3

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

🔒 Privacy

This extension does not collect any user data. See Privacy Policy for details.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing)
5. Open a Pull Request

📮 Feedback

If you have any questions or suggestions, please open an issue.

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