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Traverse complex JSON structures with live feedback

Talkat EmacsConf 2020 · 2020-11-28..11-29· [developer-experience]
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A tiny Emacs workflow wires jq into live completion so queries run as you type using ivy/counsel, producing immediate previews and one-off result buffers. The demo loads a ~200-line GitHub issue JSON, lists top-level keys, drills to the assignees field (there are two) and extracts URLs, all without leaving the buffer. The package console.jq is ~60 lines of Elisp, available on MELPA under AGPL, and the demo shows it working smoothly.

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