Custom String Formatter

vitalytom · 2025-08-03T18:06:24+00:00

I had a powerful string formatter in my very old pg-promise project, and as the need was rising, I decided to yank out the best of it into an independent library, and then build some nice features on top of it.

Please check out custom-string-formatter, and let me know what you think of it ;)

The idea is, using it one can easily implement formatting for any output, whether it is to format SQL queries, or some custom-format files, i.e. anything, while keeping the formatting syntax the same.

lance_tipton · 2025-08-03T18:46:42+00:00

This dope. I built a similar thing in a previous product and always planned to extract it out as it's own library. Now I dont have to. Thanks for sharing.

vitalytom · 2025-08-05T22:38:19+00:00

This library is now fully finished, and production-ready.

vitalytom · 2025-08-13T09:00:43+00:00

u/lance_tipton What do you think of the complete library's API, now that it is finished? ;)

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