How to export a MySQL database to JSON?

Question

I am interested in exporting a subset of values from a MySQL database into a JSON-formatted file on disk.

I found a link that talks about a possible way to do this:

Answer 1

Using MySQL Shell you can out put directly to JSON using only terminal

echo "Your SQL query" | mysqlsh --sql --result-format=json --uri=[username]@localhost/[schema_name]