JS-BEAUTIFY(1)

💖 JS-BEAUTIFY(1) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're learning js-beautify — it's the manual page, it's in the User Commands section, and it's about to fix your crusty unreadable JavaScript. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

js-beautify — beautify, unpack or deobfuscate JavaScript 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

jsbeautifier.py [options] <infile>

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

jsbeautifier.py@1.15.1

Javascript beautifier (<https://beautifier.io/>) — literally the glow-up your code has been begging for 💅

quick note bestie: <infile> can be "-", which means stdin. yes, the dash. iconic behaviour honestly.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

🌸 Input options

• -i, --stdin — Read input from stdin

🎀 Output options

• -s, --indent-size=NUMBER — Indentation size. (default 4).
• -c, --indent-char=CHAR — Character to indent with. (default space).
• -e, --eol=STRING — Character(s) to use as line terminators. (default first newline in file, otherwise "\n")
• -t, --indent-with-tabs — Indent with tabs, overrides -s and -c
• -d, --disable-preserve-newlines — Do not preserve existing line breaks.
• -P, --space-in-paren — Add padding spaces within paren, ie. f( a, b )
• -E, --space-in-empty-paren — Add a single space inside empty paren, ie. f( )
• -j, --jslint-happy — More jslint-compatible output
• -a, --space-after-anon-function — Add a space before an anonymous function's parens, ie. function ()
• --space-after-named-function — Add a space before a named function's parens, i.e. function example ()
• -b, --brace-style=collapse — Brace style (collapse, expand, end-expand, none)(,preserve-inline)
• -k, --keep-array-indentation — Keep array indentation.
• --quiet — Suppress info about a file if nothing was changed.
• -r, --replace — Write output in-place, replacing input
• -o, --outfile=FILE — Specify a file to output to (default stdout)
• -f, --keep-function-indentation — Do not re-indent function bodies defined in var lines.
• -x, --unescape-strings — Decode printable chars encoded in \xNN notation.
• -X, --e4x — Pass E4X xml literals through untouched
• -C, --comma-first — Put commas at the beginning of new line instead of end.
• -m, --max-preserve-newlines=NUMBER — Number of line-breaks to be preserved in one chunk (default 10)
• -O, --operator-position=STRING — Set operator position (before-newline, after-newline, preserve-newline)
• -w, --wrap-line-length — Attempt to wrap line when it exceeds this length. NOTE: Line continues until next wrap point is found.
• -n, --end-with-newline — End output with newline
• --indent-empty-lines — Keep indentation on empty lines
• --templating — List of templating languages (auto,none,django,erb,handlebars,php,smarty,angular) ["auto"] — auto = none in JavaScript, all in html
• --editorconfig — Enable setting configuration from EditorConfig

💀 Rarely needed options

ngl these ones are giving "only if you know why you're here" energy 🙈

• --eval-code — evaluate code if a JS interpreter is installed. May be useful with some obfuscated script but poses a potential security issue.

⚠️ bestie, read that again: potential security issue. this one actually runs the code. be so careful. 🚨

• -l, --indent-level=NUMBER — Initial indentation level. (default 0).
• -h, --help, --usage — Prints this help statement.
• -v, --version — Show the version

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and that's the whole page, periodt 💜 your code is gonna look so good it'll have main character energy ✨

okay so the official ✨receipts✨ on this one: it's <strong>js-beautify 1.15.1</strong>, dated <strong>March 2024</strong>, and yeah — that's the version, that's the date, that's the whole vibe. go forth and beautify, bestie 🫶🎀