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# JSON Editor
Website: http://jsoneditoronline.org/
Github: https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor
## Description
JSON Editor is a web-based tool to view, edit, and format JSON.
It has various modes such as a tree editor, a code editor, and a plain text
editor.
The editor can be used as a component in your own web application. The library
can be loaded as CommonJS module, AMD module, or as a regular javascript file.
Supported browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 9+.
<img alt="json editor" src="https://raw.github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor/master/misc/jsoneditor.png">
<img alt="code editor" src="https://raw.github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor/master/misc/codeeditor.png">
## Features
### Tree editor
- Edit, add, move, remove, and duplicate fields and values.
- Change type of values.
- Sort arrays and objects.
- Colorized code.
- Search & highlight text in the treeview.
- Undo and redo all actions.
### Code editor
- Format and compact JSON.
- Colorized code (powered by Ace).
- Inspect JSON (powered by Ace).
### Text editor
- Format and compact JSON.
## Documentation
- Documentation:
- [API](https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor/tree/master/docs/api.md)
- [Usage](https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor/tree/master/docs/usage.md)
- [Shortcut keys](https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor/tree/master/docs/shortcut_keys.md)
- [Examples](https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor/tree/master/examples)
- [Source](https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor)
- [History](https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor/blob/master/HISTORY.md)
## Install
with npm:
npm install jsoneditor
with bower:
bower install jsoneditor
download:
[http://jsoneditoronline.org/downloads/](http://jsoneditoronline.org/downloads/)
#### More
There is a directive available for using JSONEditor in Angular.js:
[https://github.com/angular-tools/ng-jsoneditor](https://github.com/angular-tools/ng-jsoneditor)
## Use
```html
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<!-- when using the mode "code", it's important to specify charset utf-8 -->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<link href="jsoneditor/dist/jsoneditor.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script src="jsoneditor/dist/jsoneditor.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="jsoneditor" style="width: 400px; height: 400px;"></div>
<script>
// create the editor
var container = document.getElementById("jsoneditor");
var editor = new JSONEditor(container);
// set json
var json = {
"Array": [1, 2, 3],
"Boolean": true,
"Null": null,
"Number": 123,
"Object": {"a": "b", "c": "d"},
"String": "Hello World"
};
editor.set(json);
// get json
var json = editor.get();
</script>
</body>
</html>
```
## Build
The code of the JSON Editor is located in the folder `./src`. To build
jsoneditor:
- Install dependencies:
```
npm install
```
- Build JSON Editor:
```
npm run build
```
This will generate the files `./jsoneditor.js`, `./jsoneditor.css`, and
minified versions in the root of the project.
## Custom builds
The source code of JSONEditor consists of CommonJS modules. JSONEditor can be bundled in a customized way using a module bundler like [browserify](http://browserify.org/) or [webpack](http://webpack.github.io/). First, install all dependencies of jsoneditor:
npm install
To create a custom bundle of the source code using browserify:
browserify ./index.js -o ./jsoneditor.custom.js -s JSONEditor
The Ace editor, used in mode `code`, accounts for about 75% of the total
size of the library. To exclude the Ace editor from the bundle:
browserify ./index.js -o ./jsoneditor.custom.js -s JSONEditor -x brace -x brace/mode/json -x brace/ext/searchbox
To minify the generated bundle, use [uglifyjs](https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2):
uglifyjs ./jsoneditor.custom.js -o ./jsoneditor.custom.min.js -m -c