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JavaScript::Beautifier(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation JavaScript::Beautifier(3pm)

NAME

JavaScript::Beautifier - Beautify Javascript (beautifier for javascript)

SYNOPSIS

    use JavaScript::Beautifier qw/js_beautify/;
    my $pretty_js = js_beautify( $js_source_code, {
        indent_size => 4,
        indent_character => ' ',
    } );

DESCRIPTION

This module is mostly a Perl-rewrite of <http://github.com/einars/js-beautify/tree/master/beautify.js>

You can check it through <http://jsbeautifier.org/>

FUNCTIONS

$js_source_code = <<'EOF';
a = 12;
{return '\\w+';} EOF

js_beautify( $js_source_code, $opts );

Beautify javascript source code contained in a string with the included options, described below.

Options

if you prefer Tab than Space, try: 

    {
        indent_size => 1,
        indent_character => "\t",
    }
Default is 1 

    my $in = "var\na=dont_preserve_newlines";
    my $out = "var a = dont_preserve_newlines";
    my $js = js_beautify( $in, { preserve_newlines => 0 } );
    # $out eq $js
    $in = "var\na=do_preserve_newlines";
    $out = "var\na = do_preserve_newlines";
    $js = js_beautify( $in, { preserve_newlines => 1 } );
    # $out eq $js
Default is 0

AUTHOR

Fayland Lam, "<fayland at gmail.com>"

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2008-2018 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.

2022-11-29 perl v5.36.0