prettier VS JS-Beautifier

Have you ever used a transpiler, a linter or a code formatter, such as: Babel, ESLint or Prettier? If the answer is yes, then you've already used metaprogramming! 👏

Prettier is an opinionated code formatter, it enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary. It is very useful to keep your code readable and make sure that the code format stays consistent when working in a team.

Professional: also set up Prettier, its IDE extension, and use VS Code's "Format on save" feature (or whatever other IDE's equivalent) to quickly and easily format your code to a consistent standard that you define in the configuration for ESLint and Prettier.

Like many developers I have used prettier for a long time for most of my projects. It has been the go-to formatting tool for front-end developers and for a good reason. It provides opinionated formatting with minimal options. This coupled with a wide IDE support makes it easy to setup and user.

Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. Let's install it.

Prettier works with lots of languages. Not just js. Check it out: https://prettier.io/

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Prettier is an opinionated code formatter, it enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary. It is very useful to keep your code readable and make sure that the code format stays consistent when working in a team. It also supports many programming languages such as : JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, GraphQL, JSON and much more.

Resources: https://reactnative.dev/ https://eslint.org/ https://prettier.io/ https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/itemsitemName=kisstkondoros.vscode-codemetrics

You can use an online service like beautifier.io to try to clean it up a bit. There is no way to get the original human readable JS back though. If you are interested in reading source code, you might have more luck looking at repos on GitHub, which will not be minified.

For a recent personal project, I wanted to format the generated HTML. My first stab at it used Prettier. But, I was very underwhelmed with the processing speed. I then gave js-beautify[1] a try, which I found to be much, much faster.

[1] https://github.com/beautify-web/js-beautify

Best procedure is, to use something like beautifier.io and look, how the sessionstore.json is designed

Or you can use something like https://beautifier.io/ and play with its options till you get something like you want.

This. Except I might suggest also making it readable via pretty-formatting it (adding newlines + indentation between entries). You could try your own custom regex (more difficult) or a third-party like js-beautify (easier but lacks some formatting options).

if the latter, that is more difficult. if you're savvy enough to use Chrome's debugger, you can probably find how the game represents its state, then create a clone (or heavily modify the existing source code) that stores its state in the same exact way. the game code is heavily obfuscated though (here's a hint: use https://beautifier.io/ to help you out, and make sure the "Unescape printable chars encoded as \xNN or \uNNNN?" is checkmarked). when evaluating on the live environment you might have to create a chrome extension or something to read the real game's state and feed it to the agent.

Using https://beautifier.io/ I was able to split this 264 kB block of lard into separate lines and trace the fault. The code is relying on this new JavaScript/ECMAscript feature: