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John Berk
John Berk

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5 Common JSON Mistakes Developers Make

After working with APIs for years, I’ve noticed these common JSON mistakes:

  • Trailing commas

  • Missing quotes around keys

  • Single quotes instead of double quotes

  • Invalid nesting

  • Copy-pasted minified JSON without formatting

Debugging these manually wastes a lot of time.

That’s actually why I built a small tool to instantly format and validate JSON while highlighting the exact error location.

👉 myjsontool.com

If anyone’s interested, I’d love feedback on improving it.

What JSON issues frustrate you the most?

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