nginx config file formatter and beautifier
This Javascript script beautifies and formats Nginx configuration files like so:- all lines are indented in uniform manner, with 4 spaces per level
- neighbouring empty lines are collapsed to at most two empty lines
- curly braces placement follows Java convention
- whitespaces are collapsed, except in comments an quotation marks
Where
From our website
This project can be used directly at: nginxbeautifier.comFrom the NPM repository
Please see Installation section below.From the Arch-AUR repository
Please see Installation section below.Installation
NodeJS is needed to run this program.You can install nginxbeautifier using one of the ways below:
From AUR
Using pacaur (or any other way from AUR repository)
pacaur -S nginxbeautifier
From NPM repository
npm install -g nginxbeautifier
Directly from source
simpley clone our repository and copy the executable to your /usr/bin so you can use it anywhere on the system(unix only).git clone https://github.com/vasilevich/nginxbeautifier
cp nginxbeautifier/nginxbeautifier.js /usr/bin/nginxbeautifier
How to use
Usage: nginxbeautifier OPTION... FILE...Description: Formats nginx conf files into a more readable format by re-indenting the lines.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too, Arguments are case insensitive.
-h, --help, Show this help text.
-s, --space, Amount of spaces to indent with, Can not be used if tabs are specified.
-t, --tabs, Amount of tabs to indent with, Can not be used if spaces are specified.
-dj, --dontjoin, --dont-join, if set to true, commands such as 'server' and '{' will be on a seperate line, false by default ('server {' )
-r, --recursive, scan the whole current folder, and all sub folders recursively.
-i, --input, The file to input, is optional if you provide a path after all the arguments.
-o, --output, The file to output to, is optional if you provide a path after all the arguments.
-e, -ext, --extension, The extension of the config file to look for(.conf by default).
Usage examples:
(1)>nginxbeautifier -s 4 -r sites-enabled/(2)>nginxbeautifier -s 4 -r /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
(3)>nginxbeautifier -s 4 -i /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/site.conf -o /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/newSite.conf
(4)>nginxbeautifier -s 4 -i /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/site.conf
(5)>nginxbeautifier -s 4 -i /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
(6)>nginxbeautifier -t 4 -i /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
(7)>nginxbeautifier -t 4 /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
(8)>nginxbeautifier -t 4 -i /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ -o /etc/nginx/new-sites-enabled/