I built a JSON formatter that actually tells you WHERE your JSON broke
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I've lost count of how many times I've pasted a blob of JSON into a terminal window and tried to make sense of it with python -m json.tool — only to get a cryptic error with no line numbers. So I built a small tool to fix that for myself: JSON Formatter & Validator. What it does Paste any JSON → instant pretty-print with syntax highlighting. If the JSON is broken, it shows exactly where the error is — key, line, position. There's also a Minify button for when you need to go the oth