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Install js-beautify with Homebrew, Nix

JavaScript, CSS and HTML unobfuscator and beautifier. Version 2.0.3 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-01.

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Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install js-beautify

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#js-beautify

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/js/js-beautify/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

JavaScript, CSS and HTML unobfuscator and beautifier

Commands and aliases

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

history

Project history and usage

JS Beautifier, distributed as js-beautify, is a formatter and de-obfuscation tool for JavaScript, JSON, CSS, SCSS, HTML, and related web syntaxes. It predates the formatter monoculture around Prettier and remains a familiar CLI and web tool for turning minified or packed frontend code back into readable source.

Project history

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.

Adoption history

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.

How it is used

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.

Why package nerds care

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.

Timeline

  • 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.

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 1 platform targets.
  • Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

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Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix
.jsbeautifyrc

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
css-beautifycliglobal executable
html-beautifycliglobal executable
js-beautifycliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version2.0.3
manager updated2026-07-01
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://beautifier.io

  • infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://beautifier.ionone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:js-beautify
Version2.0.3
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/js-beautify
Homepagehttps://beautifier.io
Repositoryhttps://github.com/beautifier/js-beautify
Upstream docshttps://beautifier.io/
LicenseMIT
Source archivehttps://registry.npmjs.org/js-beautify/-/js-beautify-2.0.3.tgz
Last updated2026-07-01T18:24:39Z
Pulseupdated
Dependenciesnode
Bottleavailable (on all)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namejs-beautify
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Conflicts With
  • jsbeautifier
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

js-beautify

nix profile install nixpkgs#js-beautify
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Js Beautify
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/js/js-beautify/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • nodeRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • js-beautifySame normalized package name appears in another local ecosystem. Shared terms: beautifier, beautify, css, css-beautify, html.

Same workflow

  • minifyShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, css, developer-tools, html, javascript.
  • beautyshShares av.db curated category or tags: beautifier, cli, developer-tools, formatter, formatters.
  • oxfmtShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, formatters, javascript.
  • tidy-html5Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, html, web-development.
  • angular-cliShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, javascript, web-development.
  • buildifierShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, formatters.
  • js-beautifySame normalized package name in another local ecosystem.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment