What is the JSON Formatter & Validator?
The JSON Formatter & Validator is a developer utility for beautifying, minifying, and inspecting JSON payloads — API responses, config files, log dumps, or hand-written test fixtures — without leaving your browser tab. It parses your input with the native JSON object, so validation matches exactly what your runtime will accept.
Beyond formatting, it includes an interactive collapsible tree view with click-to-copy JSON paths, a TypeScript interface generator that infers and merges shapes across arrays of objects, a live statistics panel, and a recursive key-sorter — all built with vanilla JavaScript and no external dependencies.
How to Use It?
- Step One: Paste JSON into the input box, drag a
.jsonfile onto it, or click "Upload .json file". - Step Two: Click "Format / Beautify" to pretty-print with your chosen indent, "Minify" to collapse it, or "Sort Keys" to alphabetize object keys recursively.
- Step Three: Switch to the "Tree View" tab to explore and search the structure, or "TypeScript" to generate matching interface definitions. Copy or download any output with one click.