# jsonfmt mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für jsonfmt in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:jsonfmt
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install jsonfmt
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#jsonfmt
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/js/jsonfmt/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:jsonfmt
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/jsonfmt>
- **Version:** 0.5.2
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Like gofmt, but for JSON files
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/caarlos0/jsonfmt>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/caarlos0/jsonfmt>
- **Lizenz:** MIT
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/caarlos0/jsonfmt/archive/refs/tags/v0.5.2.tar.gz>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-26T04:08:08+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- jsonfmt (cli)
- jsonfmt (Alias)

## Build-Abhängigkeiten

- go

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-04
- Manager-Version: 0.5.2
- Manager aktualisiert: 2026-07-26
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/caarlos0/jsonfmt
- neueste erkannte Version: v0.5.2 (aktuell)
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

jsonfmt is a Go command-line formatter for JSON files, explicitly modeled as `gofmt` for JSON.

### Projektgeschichte

Carlos Becker introduced jsonfmt in a November 12, 2018 blog post after needing consistent JSON formatting for a Chef-heavy project. The post describes rejecting heavier or awkward alternatives, then arriving at Go's standard `json.Indent` as the simple implementation core.

The GitHub repository was created in November 2018 and packages the formatter as a small static CLI with release artifacts for several installation paths.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Adoption is practical and small-scale: Homebrew, Docker, apt/yum repository instructions, deb/rpm packages, and manual binaries are documented by the project. The intended users are teams that want JSON formatting in CI or pre-commit workflows without pulling in a larger JavaScript formatter stack.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The README documents `jsonfmt` for checking and `jsonfmt -w` for rewriting files. Becker's blog describes using `jsonfmt -w` locally and plain `jsonfmt` in CI so formatting drift fails the build.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

jsonfmt is notable as a minimal native alternative to general-purpose formatters. Its charm is that it mostly packages a standard-library behavior into a predictable CLI, which is exactly the sort of small tool package managers are good at preserving.

### Zeitleiste

- 2018-11-07: The GitHub repository was created.
- 2018-11-12: The author published the `Keeping json files formatted` post.
- 2018-11-12: The blog documented Homebrew, Snapcraft, Docker, deb/rpm, and manual installation routes.
- 2026-06-02: GitHub repository metadata showed ongoing repository activity.

### Related projects

- jsonfmt is related to gofmt by naming and workflow, to jq and Prettier as alternative JSON formatting options, and to Go's `encoding/json` package through its implementation approach.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/caarlos0/jsonfmt>
- <https://carlosbecker.com/posts/jsonfmt/>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/jsonfmt>
- <https://github.com/caarlos0/jsonfmt>
- <https://github.com/caarlos0/jsonfmt/releases>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** jsonfmt
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** yes
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - jsonfmt: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/js/jsonfmt/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


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- [Developer build packages](https://pkg.so/de/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata.
- [go](https://pkg.so/de/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [jsonpp](https://pkg.so/de/brew/jsonpp/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, json.
- [pgformatter](https://pkg.so/de/brew/pgformatter/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter.
- [rubyfmt](https://pkg.so/de/brew/rubyfmt/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter.
- [snakefmt](https://pkg.so/de/brew/snakefmt/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter.
- [sql-formatter](https://pkg.so/de/brew/sql-formatter/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter.
- [odinfmt](https://pkg.so/de/brew/odinfmt/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter.
- [asmfmt](https://pkg.so/de/brew/asmfmt/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter.
- [jsonlint](https://pkg.so/de/brew/jsonlint/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, json.
- [fracturedjson](https://pkg.so/de/brew/fracturedjson/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: but, cli, developer, developer-tools, formatter.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/jsonfmt.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/jsonfmt.yml)


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