# Install js-beautify with Homebrew, Nix JavaScript, CSS and HTML unobfuscator and beautifier. Version 2.0.3 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-01. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:js-beautify ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install js-beautify ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#js-beautify ``` Evidence: 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 facts - **Package key:** brew:js-beautify - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 2.0.3 - **Source summary:** JavaScript, CSS and HTML unobfuscator and beautifier - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** MIT - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-07-01T18:24:39Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - css-beautify (cli) - html-beautify (cli) - js-beautify (cli) - css-beautify (alias) - html-beautify (alias) - js-beautify (alias) ## Dependencies - node ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on all ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 2.0.3 - Package-manager updated: 2026-07-01 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://beautifier.io - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## 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. ### Sources - - - - - - ## Security Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: .jsbeautifyrc ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** js-beautify - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Conflicts With:** jsbeautifier - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - js-beautify: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/js/js-beautify/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [Language runtime packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched language runtime, compiler, or interpreter metadata. - [node](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/node/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [minify](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/minify/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, css, developer-tools, html, javascript. - [beautysh](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/beautysh/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: beautifier, cli, developer-tools, formatter, formatters. - [oxfmt](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/oxfmt/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, formatters, javascript. - [tidy-html5](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/tidy-html5/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, html, web-development. - [angular-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/angular-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, javascript, web-development. - [buildifier](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/buildifier/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, formatters. - [cljfmt](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cljfmt/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, formatter, formatters. - [css-crush](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/css-crush/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, css, developer-tools, web-development. - [js-beautify](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/js-beautify/) - Same normalized package name appears in another local ecosystem. Shared terms: beautifier, beautify, css, css-beautify, html. - [js-beautify](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/js-beautify/) - Same normalized package name in another local ecosystem. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/js-beautify.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/js-beautify.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph