NArrange

NArrange is a .NET code beautifier that automatically organizes code members and elements within .NET classes.

NArrange executes a Windows .exe executable (as a child process) and thus only works on a Windows environment.

Install

Install as a (dev) package dependency:

npm install narrange -D

Quick start

From your node.js script, execute narrange.exe in a child process

const { createNArrange } = require("narrange");
const path = require("path");
 
const { narrange, ctx } = createNArrange({
  srcPath: path.join(__dirname, "src/apps/mango"),
  configFilePath: path.join(__dirname, "config/NArrange.xml")
  // set debug mode
  // debugOn: true
});
 
console.log(ctx);
 
narrange();

Note that the factory method createNArrange returns both narrange and a ctx context object. Look at the ctx object to ensure you have configured narrange correctly.

During experimentation, pass debugOn: true as an option to createNArrange

Pre-commit hooks

You can use this recipe to integrate NArrange with git hooks, such as pre-commit hooks:

• Setup git hooks via husky
• Create node script to trigger on hook

Setup hooks

Install and setup husky

Add the following to your package.json file (or create a new one using npm init)

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "narrange": "~1.0.0"
    "husky": "~1.3.1"
  },
  "husky": {
    "hooks": {
      "pre-commit": "node format-csharp.js"
    }
  }
}

Run npm install from your Terminal to install dependencies: husky and narrange

Create node script

Create a Node script format-csharp.js that runs narrange.exe on your source files using a config file with your specific preferences.

Assuming we put the script in a /scripts folder in the project root

const { createNArrange } = require("narrange");
const path = require("path");
 
const rootPath = path.join(__dirname, "../");
const srcPath = path.join(rootPath, "Areas")
const configFilePath = path.join(rootPath, "config/NArrange.xml")
 
const { narrange } = createNArrange({
  srcPath
  configFilePath
});
 
narrange();

Tabs configuration

In case you want to convert spaces to tabs, you can use one of the included configuration files

• config/Tabs4.xml converts 4 spaces to 1 tab
• config/Tabs2.xml converts 2 spaces to 1 tab

Assuming we put the script in a /scripts folder in the project root

const path = require("path");
const rootPath = path.join(__dirname, "../");
const narrangeHomePath = path.join(rootPath, "node_modules/narrange");
const narrangeConfigPath = path.join(narrangeHomePath, "config");
// const narrangeLibPath = path.join(narrangeHomePath, "lib");
 
const configFilePath = path.join(narrangeConfigPath, "Tabs4.xml")s

Formatting

To create your own formatting rules, by specifying your own rules in the <Formatting> section on the config file. Use any of the files included in config or lib folders of this package.

<Formatting>
    <Tabs Style="Tabs" SpacesPerTab="2"/>
    <ClosingComments Enabled="false" Format="End $(ElementType) $(Name)"/>
    <Regions Style="NoDirective" />
    <Usings MoveTo="Namespace"/>
    <LineSpacing RemoveConsecutiveBlankLines="true" />
</Formatting>

Note that you can use the narrange-config.exe to edit a configuration file using a GUI, which ensures you can only populate it with valid values.

Simple tabs formatting configuration

Simple configuration to force 2 spaces to be converted to a tab:

const { narrange } = createNArrange({
  srcPath: path.join(__dirname, "src/apps/mango"),
  tabs: 4 // use instead of configFilePath to select built in Tabs config file
});
narrange();

createNArrange

The function createNArrange creates a child process which executes the narrange.exe executable. createNArrange accepts the following options:

• onError custom stderr handler function
• onOut custom stdout handler function
• createMainHandler factory method to create main handler
• createExitHandler factory method to create process exit handler
• createWriters factory method to create writers (error, info, debug methods)
• createCommand factory method to create the command to execute in the child process
• exitHandler process exit handler function (takes precedence over factory)
• mainHandler main handler function (takes precedence over factory)
• srcPath path to input folder for narrange (location folder of source files to process)
• configFilePath path to narrange config file
• exePath path to narrange exe to override version available in this module
• tabs spaces count to tabs used in formatting (used to select built in Tabs config file) - 2 or 4
• debugOn turn debug mode on or off (default: false)

Note that all these options are optional. If any option is left out, a default value is used.

Custom narrange setup example :

const { createNArrange } = require("narrange");
const path = require("path");
 
const createMainHandler = (opts = {}) => {
  return (err, stdout, stderr) => {
    // ..
    if (err) {
      opts.onError(err);
    }
  };
};
 
const onError = (err) {
  console.error(err);
}
 
const { narrange } = createNArrange({
  srcPath: path.join(__dirname, "src/apps/mango"),
  configFilePath: path.join(__dirname, "config/NArrange.xml"),
  createMainHandler,
  onOut,
  onError,
  // tabs: 2 // use instead of configFilePath to select built in Tabs config file
});
narrange();

Exports

narrange exports the following "building blocks":

• exitHandler function
• mainHandler function
• createMainHandler factory function
• createExitHandler factory function
• createWriters function to create info, error, and debug functions
• defaults config object
• paths config object

This should make it easy to build a custom narrange solution to suit your needs.

Full script example

The following example uses minimist to parse process args passed from shell.

const path = require("path");
const minimist = require('minimist');
const { createNArrange } = require("narrange");
const processArgs = process.argv.slice(2);
const opts = {
  alias: {
    h: 'help',
    s: 'src',
    t: 'tabs'
  }
};
 
// args is an object, with key for each named argument
const args = minimist(processArgs, opts);
const defaults = {
  srcFolder: "./",
  tabs: 4
}
if (args.help) {
  console.log(`
format-cs
---------
  -s src folder (default: ./ )
  -t spaces per tab (default: 4)
`)
  process.exit(0);
}
const srcFolder = args.src || defaults.srcFolders;
const tabs = args.tabs || defaults.tabs;
const rootPath = path.join(__dirname, "..");
const srcPath = path.join(rootPath, srcFolder),
 
createNArrange({
  srcPath,
  tabs
});

Tests

You can run some basic tests using jest

$ npm test

Note that the executable narrange.exe can only be executed on a Windows (perhaps also using Mono?) platform.

More resources

• Stack Overflow: Is there a pretty printer / code formatter for C# (as part of build system)?

Recipes

• Arranging C# project files
• .NET Source code formatting guide

gits: PowerShell - Recurse Project

Format-Document PowerShell function which leverages Recurse-Project and automates calling into Visual Studio’s Format Document command.

function Format-Document {
  param(
    [parameter(ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true)]
    [string[]]$ProjectName
  )
  Process {
    $ProjectName | %{
      Recurse-Project -ProjectName $_ -Action
      {
        param($item)
        if($item.Type -eq 'Folder' -or !$item.Language)
        {
          return
        }
        $win = $item.ProjectItem.Open('{7651A701-06E5-11D1-8EBD-00A0C90F26EA}')
        if ($win)
        {
          Write-Host "Processing `"$($item.ProjectItem.Name)`"" [System.Threading.Thread]::Sleep(100) $win.Activate() $item.ProjectItem.Document.DTE.ExecuteCommand('Edit.FormatDocument') $item.ProjectItem.Document.DTE.ExecuteCommand('Edit.RemoveAndSort') $win.Close(1)
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Format-Document can be configured for Visual Studio and used to run your existing Format Document command on a subset of project files, using recurse project to iterate and select the files to be processed.

Extensions

• VS extension: FormatAllFiles
• VS extension: NArrangeVS
• Code formatter (based on Roslyn)

More docs

See [./Format-CSharp.md] for more details on using narrange directly.

License

See NArrange license terms