[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":251},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-how-to-format-json-online":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"description":236,"draft":237,"extension":238,"lang":239,"meta":240,"navigation":241,"path":242,"pubDate":243,"relatedTool":244,"seo":245,"stem":246,"tags":247,"__hash__":250},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-format-json-online.mdx","How to Format JSON Online (Free Tool)","ujiffy team",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":227},"minimark",[10,15,19,22,45,49,58,74,82,90,94,97,124,127,131,134,184,187,191,212,215,218],[11,12,14],"h2",{"id":13},"why-json-formatting-matters","Why JSON Formatting Matters",[16,17,18],"p",{},"JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is the backbone of modern APIs and data exchange. But raw JSON — especially from a network response or database dump — is often a single compressed line with no whitespace. 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