JSON to Markdown Table

Markdown is a lightweight markup language that uses plain text syntax to produce formatted documents. A Markdown table uses pipe | characters to separate columns and dashes to create the header separator row. It is supported natively by GitHub, GitLab, Notion, Obsidian, and most documentation platforms.

Converting JSON to a Markdown table is useful for including API response data in README files, creating comparison tables in pull request descriptions, documenting configuration options in wikis, and sharing structured data in documentation that is version-controlled with your code.

[
  { "name": "Alice", "role": "Engineer", "age": 30 },
  { "name": "Bob",   "role": "Designer", "age": 27 }
]

Generates:

| name  | role     | age |
| ---   | ---      | --- |
| Alice | Engineer | 30  |
| Bob   | Designer | 27  |