lax is a collection of fast formatters that only adjust whitespace and leave everything else exactly as written.
It supports CSS, SCSS, Less, SQL, HTML, XML, SVG, Vue, Svelte, Astro, and other markup formats. The formatters use lossless tokenization and can be used as Rust libraries or dprint plugins.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Only modifies whitespace
- Lossless tokenization preserves code
- Handles unknown syntax and vendor extensions
- Supports CSS, SCSS, and Less
- Dialect-agnostic SQL formatting
- Formats HTML, XML, SVG, Vue, Svelte, and Astro
- Idempotent formatting produces stable output
- Single-pass printing
- Available as Rust libraries
- dprint plugin support
- Plugins published to npm
Website: github.com/bartlomieju/lax
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Developer: Bartłomiej Iwańczuk
License: MIT License
lax is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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