FM
Problem
I like keeping my code looking nice and organized, so I am a fan of formatters. However, I don’t like how busy and confusing IDEs handle formatting, and I write a lot of my code in the terminal through Vim. For a while, I was looking for a CLI tool that is a formatter that allows me to provide either a file path or directory path and it formats all the content I provided. Meaning, if I provide a directory, it will format all the files in that directory and respect any .gitignore file(s) if it finds any in the provided directory. I searched for a solution for a while but found nothing.
Solution
Due to this and in response to this problem, I developed fm, a CLI tool currently in early development, designed to format scripts across various projects. This tool offers more control over formatting compared to relying on an IDE. While it’s still in development, it’s fully usable! If you’re interested in contributing, feel free to fork the repo and submit a PR.
Design
fm is written in Bash script and uses the following libraries/formatters in the background:
With these libraries/formatters, fm supports the following formats:
.py
.sh
.bash
.dash
.ksh
.js
.jsx
.ts
.tsx
.json
.md
.html
.css
.yml
.yaml
.graphql
.vue
.scss
.less
.c
.cpp
.h
.hpp
.m
.mm
.java
The code also has a setup.py script for easily installing and/or uninstalling fm on your system. Currently, fm has been tested on macOS and various Linux distributions but it has not been tested on Windows and will most likely not support Windows any time soon.
Conclusion
I use fm extensively on my personal system, and many contributors or collaborators I work with also use it as well. That is why I open-sourced it. I think it’s very useful and it can provide real value, so I want the whole world to be able to use it.
Check out fm on GitHub or just install it by running this command:
/bin/bash -c "$(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MehmetMHY/fm/refs/heads/main/setup.sh)" -s -i
And running the following command (in your desired project’s directory):
fm