How to fix JSON indentation in vim?

Question

In vim, the default indentation for JSON is:

{
    \"employees\": [
    { \"firstName\":\"John\" , \"lastName\":\"Doe\" }, 
    { \"firstName\":\"Anna\" , \"         


        

Answer 1

You can send to an external tool, as an example, if you have python you can send the content to python's json tool using:

:%!python -m json.tool