Text Editors
Overview
This page covers some of the ways the members of the Campbell Muscle Lab interact with JSON files on a daily basis.
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is an easy to use open source text editor/IDE with syntax highlighting, autocomplete, file previews, and much more.
Visual Studio code is great for editing JSON files because of the automatic error highlighting, formatting, and the ability to modify JSON files right alongside the code used for your model. Below is a screenshot of an example JSON file in Visual Studio Code:
Example of Error Highlighting
Following is an example of how Visual Studio Code highlights errors in JSON files. In this particular case, we have forgotten the exponent for the "max_rate" parameter:
Get Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is free to use and can be downloaded at this link.