js-beautify を Homebrew, Nix でインストール

プロジェクトリンク

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コマンドとエイリアス

• css-beautify
• html-beautify
• js-beautify

プロジェクトの歴史

The GitHub repository was created in December 2008, and the README describes the tool as a way to reformat bookmarklets, ugly JavaScript, scripts packed by Dean Edwards' packer, and output from JavaScript obfuscators. The project grew from JavaScript beautification into a multi-language web-source formatter with command-line binaries for JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.

The npm package history begins in July 2012 and shows steady releases across the 1.x line for more than a decade. The project also maintains beautifier.io as the browser-facing interface, making the same lineage visible both to CLI users and to developers pasting code into an online beautifier.

採用の歴史

JS Beautifier spread through npm, Homebrew, and direct browser use because it solved a common web-development task before formatter-on-save workflows were standard. Its GitHub repository has thousands of stars and many forks, and the package-manager footprint reflects long-lived demand for a simple beautify/unobfuscate command.

使われ方

The CLI is used to re-indent source files, inspect minified production JavaScript, normalize generated HTML or CSS, and run formatter settings from a .jsbeautifyrc file. It is more of a readability and recovery tool than a modern opinionated style enforcer.

パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

js-beautify is significant because it captures an earlier era of JavaScript tooling: before bundlers, minifiers, linters, and opinionated formatters all converged into modern frontend toolchains, a small beautifier package could become infrastructure for editors, web tools, distro packages, and debugging workflows.

タイムライン

• 2008: GitHub repository created for js-beautify.
• 2012: npm package publication history began with 0.1.8.
• 2013: 1.x releases established the package as a stable CLI-era JavaScript beautifier.
• 2024: 1.15.0 shipped in the long-running 1.x release line.
• 2026: 2.x releases appeared on npm and the beautifier.io interface identified itself with the 2.x line.

Related projects

• Related projects include beautifier.io, the Python jsbeautifier distribution, Prettier, ESLint formatting workflows, Dean Edwards' packer, and other source beautifiers embedded in editors and web debugging tools.

ソース

• https://beautifier.io/
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/js-beautify
• https://github.com/beautifier/js-beautify
• https://github.com/beautifier/js-beautify/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
• https://registry.npmjs.org/js-beautify
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/js-beautify