JS_BEAUTIFY(1p)

💖 JS_BEAUTIFY 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to JS_BEAUTIFY(1p) — it's a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the manual, and it's literally just here to tell you about a lil command tool that makes your javascript files pretty. yes. that's the whole gig. slay.

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✨ NAME ✨

js_beautify — the command tool that beautifies your javascript files 🎀

like, it takes your cursed one-line spaghetti and gives it main character energy.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

js_beautify [options] FILE
js_beautify [options] -

so you either hand it a FILE, or you hand it a - and it'll read from stdin. both are valid, both are iconic, pick your fighter 💅

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -?, --help — the classic. shows you the help. no notes.
• -w, --overwrite — if you pass -w, it will overwrite the FILE. like, in place. the original is gone, the glow-up has arrived 🔥
• -o, --output — by default we print the beautified javascript to STDOUT. but if you do --output=newfile.js, it will write into newfile.js instead. new file, new you ✨
• -s, --indent_size, -c, --indent_character — the indent duo 🫶 by default we use 4 spaces. but if you prefer 8 spaces, we can do -s=8. the power is yours, bestie.
• -p, --preserve_newlines — 1 by default. (that's the value, not a mood.)

ok real talk for a sec: -? and --help are listed together with no description in the original, and -s/-c are grouped as one vibe. i kept them exactly where they belong, don't come for me 🙈

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📜 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE 📜

Copyright 2009 Fayland Lam, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

so yes, it's free, it's Perl-flavored, it's giving generous 💜

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okay that's the whole page, no cap. this was JS_BEAUTIFY(1p) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, brought to you by perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-11-29 — go beautify something, bestie 🌈💅🦋