Code Painter is a JavaScript beautifier that instead of asking you to manually specify the desired formatting style, can infer it from a code sample provided by you. This could, for instance, be a code snippet from the same project that your new code is supposed to be integrated with.

It uses the excellent Esprima parser by Ariya Hidayat (thanks!).

The name is inspired by Word's Format Painter, which does a similar job for rich text.

For now, it can only be used as a command-line tool but a Web version is in the works.

./bin/codepaint -i input.js -s sample.js -o output.js

transforms the input.js file using formatting style from sample.js and writes the output to output.js

-i and -o can both be ommitted, in that case standard I/O streams will be used.

./bin/codepaint -s sample.js < input.js > output.js

The style can still be specified manually with a JSON string as the --style argument:

./bin/codepaint --style '{ "QuoteType": "double" }' < input.js > output.js

1. Indentation: { character: '?', width: ? }

   Specifies the indentation used for scopes.

   character should be one of: ' ', '\t' and width should be a positive integer, e.g.:

   { character: ' ', width: 4 } or { character: '\t', width: 1 }

2. LastEmptyLine: present, omitted

   Specifies if there should always be an empty line at the end of a file.

3. QuoteType: single, double

   Specifies what kind of quoting you would like to use for string literals:

   console.log("Hello world!") -> console.log('Hello world!')

   Adds proper escaping when necessary, obviously.

   console.log('Foo "Bar" Baz') -> console.log("Foo \"Bar\" Baz")

4. SpaceAfterControlStatements: present, omitted

   Specifies whether or not there should be a space between if/for/while and the following (.

   if(x === 4) -> if (x === 4) or while (foo()) { -> while(foo()) {

5. SpaceAfterAnonymousFunctions: present, omitted

   Specifies whether or not there should be a space between function and () in anonymous functions.

   function(x) { } -> function (x) { }

6. SpacesAroundOperators: present, omitted

   Specifies whether or not there should be spaces around operators such as +,=,+=,>=,!==.

   var x = 4; -> var x=4; or a>=b -> a >= b or a>>2 -> a >> 2

7. TrailingWhitespaces: strip

   Specifies whether trailing whitespaces should be stripped from the end of the lines.