Keep inline objects option

[vccortez]

Hello, it would be great if we could have more control over plain object formatting.

Right now, any object, even the ones with only one parameter gets expanded. For example:

var object = { id: 10 };

Ends up transformed into:

var object = {
  id: 10
};

I personally don't think expanding every object is a good thing, not every object is going to be complex, specially plain javascript objects, so this formatting rule often becomes a minor annoyance that adds more lines to your source code.

Additionally (but maybe out of the scope of this feature request), this causes problems with a few javascript features of ES6 ( #511, #382 ), making the code seem ugly.

The internet is full of examples where plain objects are used inline, like this snippet from Node's about page:

http.createServer((req, res) => {
  res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' });
  res.end('Hello World\n');
}).[...]

I think most of these issues could be solved if we had ways to tell jsbeautifier what to do about small plain objects ( maybe {name:'hello'} -> { name: 'hello' }) instead of using the same behavior of function blocks.

[bitwiseman]

You are not alone in wanting this. See #315
I just updated that issue's title to include the word "inline".
But thank you for taking the time to submit a full and well-reasoned feature request. 😄