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i think there is a name clash here, i like fx the json viewer https://github.com/antonmedv/fx (20.6k star on gh)

comment by parisiansam · 2026-08-19 · in fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.

Coincidentally, yesterday I decided I needed a JSON TUI and landed on fx ( https://github.com/antonmedv/fx ), which seems to have come out of the Wave terminal project and looks quite similar to jless. Also uses vim keybindings. I like it…

comment by darkteflon · 2024-10-10 · in Command Line Tools I Like (2022)

…far is navigating large responses. Would be cool to have some way to collapse chunks of JSON (a la https://github.com/antonmedv/fx ), or even just more vim key navigation, like G/gg, %, {/}, and search.

comment by sprobertson · 2024-07-10 · in Show HN: Posting v1 – The modern HTTP client that lives in your terminal

…thread. I'll add lazygit ( https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit ) for doing git stuff, and fx ( https://github.com/antonmedv/fx ) for working with JSONs.

comment by yoavm · 2024-05-06 · in Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?

Just use: go install github.com/antonmedv/fx@latest

comment by umvi · 2023-09-19 · in Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer

…their Go program on npm. Edit: They indeed have a separate non-interactive version in JS: https://github.com/antonmedv/fx/tree/master/npm

comment by laurent123456 · 2023-09-19 · in Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer

…familiar, Anton is also behind the highly useful fx[0] for wrangling JSON data in the terminal. [0] https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

comment by luckman212 · 2022-11-22 · in Show HN: Llama – Terminal File Manager

I really like fx ( https://github.com/antonmedv/fx ) for interactive stuff. It does exactly what I think you want. You can expand individual fields and explore the schema. However, I really do like jq for queries and scripting, so I keep…

comment by ratorx · 2022-04-26 · in Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq

…Javascript, Python and Ruby. It used to be a node CLI but was recently rewritten in golang[2] [1] https://github.com/antonmedv/fx [2] https://twitter.com/antonmedv/status/1515429017582809090

comment by ducaale · 2022-04-26 · in Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq

…with jq + Bash + awk etc? These tools might also be useful: https://kantord.github.io/emuto/ https://github.com/antonmedv/fx Best of luck!

comment by cpach · 2022-04-07 · in Ask HN: What do you use to view logs?

…GUI app called DataStation[0] if you're looking for that. fx: Command-line JSON processing tool - https://github.com/antonmedv/fx dasel: JSON, YAML, TOML, XML, and CSV query and modification tool - https://github.com/TomWright/dasel dsq:…

comment by luckman212 · 2022-03-21 · in Ask HN: Local Tools for Viewing JSON

Also worth mentioning: https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

comment by yoavm · 2022-02-11 · in Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

…I actually collected a sizable list of alternatives to Jq: https://github.com/TomConlin/json2xpath https://github.com/antonmedv/fx https://github.com/simeji/jid https://github.com/jmespath/jp https://jsonnet.org…

comment by aasasd · 2021-12-06 · in Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app

Have you checked these? - https://github.com/antonmedv/fx - https://github.com/antonmedv/gofx

comment by pdimitar · 2021-12-06 · in Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app

…author of the tool has also written a guide [2] and recorded a screencast [3] about the tool. [1] https://github.com/antonmedv/fx [2] https://medium.com/@antonmedv/discover-how-to-use-fx-effecti... [3] https://youtu.be/ktfeRxKog98

comment by ducaale · 2021-08-25 · in An Introduction to JQ

Can someone comment on how does `jq` compare with `fx`? - https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

comment by yewenjie · 2021-08-01 · in Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq

…import npm packages that you might find useful, shortcuts, or your personal functions. [1] https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

comment by gryn · 2021-07-29 · in Command line tools for productive programmers

Also fx is very handy for easily inspecting json and is one like using too. https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

comment by res0nat0r · 2020-11-06 · in Gron – Make JSON Greppable

…things than JSON): https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq https://github.com/TomConlin/json2xpath https://github.com/antonmedv/fx https://github.com/fiatjaf/jiq https://github.com/simeji/jid https://github.com/jmespath/jp…

comment by aasasd · 2020-09-14 · in Q: A faster re-implementaiton of jq written in Reason Native/OCaml

I have used fx for a few days and enjoyed it. https://github.com/antonmedv/fx Highlights - interactive mode - Use full power of JavaScript. $ curl ... | fx '.filter(x => x.startsWith("a"))' - Access all lodash (or ramda, etc) methods by…

comment by pololee · 2020-01-07 · in Show HN: jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go

…like this, to extract the name from an array of users, for instance: fx users.json ‘u => u.name’ 0: https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

comment by dceddia · 2019-12-23 · in JSON on the Command Line with Jq

> Does anyone know a more interactive json tool? With, for example, auto-completion? https://github.com/antonmedv/fx It just uses JS for the query language and can be hooked in to bash completion. Personally I don't get on with jq, because…

comment by frou_dh · 2019-12-22 · in JSON on the Command Line with Jq

…trying out JSON APIs interactively. Combined with something like fx[1] this is a real treat. [1] https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

comment by t0astbread · 2019-12-01 · in HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client

…). Much friendlier syntax then curl, formats the output... Also works great with fx ( https://github.com/antonmedv/fx ). Just pipe the output from HTTPie and you get easy json processing.

comment by AndrejKolar · 2019-08-27 · in Curl exercises

…line completion for fx is pretty obvious, if you know what fx does. It's missing a link to fx. https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

comment by hibbelig · 2019-03-01 · in Bash Completion from JSON Fields

…ROI out of one of the languages I already know. [0]: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/ [1]: https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

comment by frou_dh · 2018-05-25 · in Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Cluster (2014)

Done. =) Now fx has standalone binary (linux, macos, win): https://github.com/antonmedv/fx/releases

comment by medv · 2018-01-26 · in Show HN: Jq alternative built on top of JavaScript anonymous functions – fx