I am trying to use jsbeautifier to beautify my code and the main templating language I use is EJS. Perhaps I am mistaken but it doesn't seem to be that ejs is fully supported.
I am using this grunt plugin: https://github.com/vkadam/grunt-jsbeautifier
An example of the issue I am facing is that the beautifier seems to parse assignments oddly. I have this line of code:
<% page = english.about %>
and after beautification:
<% page=e nglish.about %>
This clearly breaks the template. I get the same result here: http://jsbeautifier.org/
I have no idea what part of the beautification process is parsing my code in what to me seems like such an unusual way. Part of what confuses me is if I have
<% page=english.about %>
The beautifier does nothing and my code runs correctly but it seems like a very poor practice to have to remember that while coding or everything breaks if I insert a space.
I have tried most of the configurations but nothing seems to fix this issue. I don't know of any beautifiers built specifically for ejs.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
Although this has been reported as an issue https://github.com/beautify-web/js-beautify/issues/643 there is a workaround for your problem (
<% page=e nglish.about %>):Just use parentheses like this:
<% (page = english.about) %>