cljstyle
is a tool for formatting Clojure code. It can take something messy
like this:
( ns
foo.bar.baz "some doc"
(:require (foo.bar [abc :as abc]
def))
(:use foo.bar.qux)
(:import foo.bar.qux.Foo
;; Need this for the thing
foo.bar.qux.Bar)
)
(defn hello "says hi" (
[] (hello "world")
) ([name]
( println "Hello," name )
))
...and restyle it into nicely-formatted code like this:
(ns foo.bar.baz
"some doc"
(:require
[foo.bar.abc :as abc]
[foo.bar.def]
[foo.bar.qux :refer :all])
(:import
(foo.bar.qux
;; Need this for the thing
Bar
Foo)))
(defn hello
"says hi"
([] (hello "world"))
([name]
(println "Hello," name)))
Note that this is a rewrite of the original weavejester/cljfmt tool to provide more capabilities and configurability as well as a native-compiled binary.
Binary releases are available on the GitHub project. The native binaries are self-contained, so to install them simply place them on your path.
This installation script works for linux and MacOS and can be used for quickly
installing or upgrading to the newest cljstyle without a package manager. It
will install to /usr/local/bin
by default.
To download and execute the script:
curl -sLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/greglook/cljstyle/main/util/install-cljstyle
chmod +x install-cljstyle
./install-cljstyle
The script accepts several options to control the installation directory,
download directory, version, and architecture. Run with --help
to see all
options. To upgrade, just run the script again.
cljstyle
can be installed on macOS via a Homebrew Cask:
brew install --cask cljstyle
Releases are also published to Clojars. To use the latest version, add the following dependency to your project:
The cljstyle
tool supports several different commands for checking source files.
To check the formatting of your source files, use:
cljstyle check
If the formatting of any source file is incorrect, a diff will be supplied showing the problem, and what cljstyle thinks it should be.
If you want to check only a specific file, or several specific files, you can do that, too:
cljstyle check src/foo/core.clj
Once you've identified formatting issues, you can choose to ignore them, fix them manually, or let cljstyle fix them with:
cljstyle fix
As with the check
task, you can choose to fix a specific file:
cljstyle fix src/foo/core.clj
The pipe
command offers a generic way to correct style by reading Clojure
code from stdin and writing the reformatted code to stdout:
cljstyle pipe < in.clj > out.clj
This command resolves configuration from the directory it is executed in, since there is no explicit file path to use.
For inspecting what cljstyle is doing, one tool is to specify the --verbose
flag, which will cause additional debugging output to be printed. There are also
a few extra commands which can help understand what's happening.
The find
command will print what files would be checked by cljstyle. It will
print each file path to standard output on a new line:
cljstyle find [path...]
The config
command will show what configuration settings cljstyle would use to
process the specified files or files in the current directory:
cljstyle config [path]
Finally, version
will show what version of the tool you're using:
cljstyle version
cljstyle
can be integrated into many different tools, including shells,
editors, and tests. See the integration docs for more
details.
The cljstyle
tool comes with a sensible set of default configuration built-in
and may additionally be configured by using a hierarchy of .cljstyle
files in
the source tree. The configuration settings include
toggles for format rules, width constraints, and the
indentation rules.
By default, cljstyle will ignore forms which are wrapped in a (comment ...)
form
or preceeded by the discard macro #_
. You can also optionally disable
formatting rules from matching a form by tagging it with ^:cljstyle/ignore
metadata - this is often useful for macros.
Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.