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JavaScript Beautifier

Beautify JavaScript for readability.

Beautify JavaScript for readability.

Accepts:JSOutputs:JS
Quick start: Paste your minified, compressed, or messy JavaScript into the input area. → Click Beautify to apply indentation, spacing, and line breaks. → Review the formatted output, with functions, loops, and conditionals clearly nested.

Supported formats

Input formats
JS
Output formats
JS

How to use JavaScript Beautifier

  1. 1

    Paste your minified, compressed, or messy JavaScript into the input area.

  2. 2

    Click Beautify to apply indentation, spacing, and line breaks.

  3. 3

    Review the formatted output, with functions, loops, and conditionals clearly nested.

  4. 4

    Scan for any syntax issues that the cleaner structure now makes obvious.

  5. 5

    Copy the readable code with one click for debugging or review.

Real examples of JavaScript Beautifier in action

Minified function expanded
Before
function add(a,b){return a+b}const x=add(2,3);
After
function add(a, b) {
  return a + b;
}
const x = add(2, 3);
Compressed conditional
Before
if(x>0){y=1}else{y=-1}
After
if (x > 0) {
  y = 1;
} else {
  y = -1;
}
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Who is JavaScript Beautifier for?

Developers debugging minified production bundles

Engineers reviewing transpiled or generated JavaScript

Teams standardizing inconsistently formatted legacy scripts

Writers preparing JS code samples for tutorials

Why use JavaScript Beautifier?

  • Turns one-line minified bundles into properly indented, readable source.
  • Understands ES6+ features like arrow functions, async/await, destructuring, and modules.
  • Makes control flow visible by nesting blocks and breaking up chained expressions.
  • Helps you spot syntax errors that are invisible in compressed code.
  • Runs locally, so unreleased or proprietary code is never sent to a server.

Common use cases

  • Expand a minified production bundle to trace a bug back to its logic.
  • Format transpiled or auto-generated output before reading it in a review.
  • Clean up inconsistently styled scripts inherited from another developer.
  • Prepare JavaScript snippets for a blog post or tutorial with consistent indentation.

How JavaScript Beautifier compares to alternatives

Honest comparison to other popular options — pick the right tool for the job.

ToolMain limitation
PrettierNeeds a Node.js install and config, not ideal for a quick one-off paste
Browser DevTools pretty-print (the {} button)Reformats only the file currently loaded and offers no copy-ready output for editing
Online beautifiers on ad-cluttered sitesSlow, ad-heavy, and many transmit your code to their servers
JavaScript BeautifierFree, runs in your browser, no sign-up, no watermarks, no file-size limits beyond your device memory.

Limitations & things to know

  • Cannot restore original variable names that a minifier already mangled
  • TypeScript and JSX may not format perfectly since they extend standard JavaScript

About JavaScript Beautifier

A JavaScript beautifier takes compressed or poorly formatted JavaScript and rewrites it with proper indentation, spacing, and line breaks so it becomes readable again. Minified scripts collapse an entire file onto one line, strip every optional space, and sometimes mangle variable names down to single letters. That is ideal for shipping but hopeless when you need to understand what a bundle is doing in production. This tool restores structure by indenting each block, putting statements on their own lines, adding spaces around operators, and breaking up chained expressions so the control flow is visible. It understands modern syntax, including arrow functions, template literals, destructuring, spread and rest, async and await, optional chaining, nullish coalescing, and ES module import and export statements. It is important to be clear about what beautifying does and does not do. It changes whitespace and line breaks only, it does not run, validate, or fix your code. If the input has a syntax error, the formatted output still has that error, although broken structure is usually far easier to spot once the code is indented. Beautifying also cannot recover original variable names that a minifier already mangled to single characters, since that information is permanently lost during minification. The result is readable code, not the original authored source. TypeScript and JSX are not fully supported because they introduce syntax that is not plain JavaScript, so type annotations and JSX tags may not indent perfectly. Everything runs locally in your browser, so proprietary or unreleased source code is never transmitted. For the opposite direction, the companion JavaScript Minifier compresses code for production.

Frequently asked questions

No. When a minifier renames variables to single letters, the original names are permanently discarded. The beautifier restores whitespace and structure, but variables stay as whatever the minified file contains.
No. It only reformats. If your code has a syntax error it remains in the output, though proper indentation usually makes the problem much easier to find.
Only partially. The tool targets standard JavaScript, so TypeScript type annotations and JSX tags may not indent correctly.
No. All formatting happens in your browser with JavaScript. Your code never leaves your device.

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Embed JavaScript Beautifier on your site

Add this tool to your own website, blog, or internal tool page with one line of code. Free to use, no attribution required (but appreciated).

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