Endent

An ES6 string tag that makes indentation right, adds some key features to dedent.

Feature

Pretty object

1import dedent from "dedent";
2import endent from "endent";
3
4var someobj = {
5  contact: {
6    jack: 123456,
7    tom: 654321,
8  },
9  color: "blue",
10};
11
12var somejson = '["bear", "fish", "dog", "cat"]';
13
14var awfulTmpl = dedent`
15  function store (state, emitter) {
16    state["someobj"] = ${JSON.stringify(someobj, null, 2)}
17    state["somejson"] = ${JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(somejson), null, 2)}
18  }
19`;
20// use endent.pretty(value) when value is object or array.
21var prettyTmpl = endent`
22  function store (state, emitter) {
23    state["someobj"] = ${endent.pretty(someobj)}
24    state["somejson"] = ${somejson}
25  }
26`;
27
28console.log(awfulTmpl + "\n\n" + prettyTmpl);

1// awfulTmpl
2function store(state, emitter) {
3  state["someobj"] = {
4contact: {
5  jack: 123456,
6  tom: 654321,
7},
8color: "blue",
9}
10  state["somejson"] = [
11"bear", 
12"fish", 
13"dog",
14"cat"
15]
16}
17
18// prettyTmpl
19function store(state, emitter) {
20  state["someobj"] = {
21    contact: {
22      jack: 123456,
23      tom: 654321,
24    },
25    color: "blue",
26  }
27  state["somejson"] = [
28    "bear", 
29    "fish", 
30    "dog", 
31    "cat"
32  ]
33}

Endows suitable indentation for multiline interpolation

1var dependencies = ["jquery", "underscore", "bootstrap"];
2var dependencyTmpl = ``;
3dependencies.forEach((d, i) => {
4  dependencyTmpl += `var ${d} = require("${d}")\n`;
5});
6
7var awfulTmpl = dedent`
8  ;(function () {
9    ${dependencyTmpl}
10  })()
11`;
12
13var prettyTmpl = endent`
14  ;(function () {
15    ${dependencyTmpl}
16  })()
17`;
18
19console.log(awfulTmpl + "\n\n" + prettyTmpl);

1// awfulTmpl
2(function () {
3  var jquery = require("jquery");
4var underscore = require("underscore");
5var bootstrap = require("bootstrap");
6})();
7
8// prettyTmpl
9(function () {
10  var jquery = require("jquery");
11  var underscore = require("underscore");
12  var bootstrap = require("bootstrap");
13})();

License

MIT