How can I pretty-print a JSON file from the command line?

Question

I\'ve a file with a sequence of JSON element:

{ element0: \"lorem\", value0: \"ipsum\" }
{ element1: \"lorem\", value0: \"ipsum\" }
...
{ elementN: \"lorem\"         


        

Answer 1

To format your JSON with proper indentation use JSON.stringify

console.log(JSON.stringify(your_object, null, 2)); // prints in b/w

But to make it prettier by adding colors, you can check out my package beautify-json

beautify-json

Example:

const { jsonBeautify } = require('beautify-json')

let your_object = {
    name: 'Nikhil',
    age: 22,
    isMarried: false,
    girlfriends: null,
    interestedIn: [
        'javascript',
        'reactjs',
        'nodejs'
    ]
}

jsonBeautify(your_object) // It will beautify your object with colors and proper indentation and display it on the terminal

Output: