How to Minify JSON and Shrink Your API Payloads in Seconds

You're debugging a slow API and you open the response in your browser's network tab. The payload is 620 KB. You paste it into a text editor and immediately spot the problem: every key is quoted, every value is neatly indented, and there are blank lines between sections. Your beautiful, readable JSON is costing you hundreds of milliseconds per request. Whitespace is free when you're reading JSON. It's not free when you're sending it across a network a thousand times a day. What minification actua