diff --git a/js/grunt/format.js b/js/grunt/format.js
index 66190a60d..60e04c785 100644
--- a/js/grunt/format.js
+++ b/js/grunt/format.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright 2020, Nick Crews
+// Copyright 2020, University of Colorado Boulder
 
 /**
  * Runs the formatting rules on the specified files.
@@ -9,67 +9,67 @@
 'use strict';
 
 // modules
-const beautify = require( 'js-beautify' );
+const beautify = require( 'js-beautify' ); // eslint-disable-line 
 const fs = require( 'fs' );
 const grunt = require( 'grunt' );
 const sortImports = require( './sortImports' );
 
 const OPTIONS = {
-  "html": {
-    "allowed_file_extensions": [ "htm", "html", "xhtml", "shtml", "xml", "svg" ],
-    "brace_style": "collapse",
-    "end_with_newline": false,
-    "indent_char": " ",
-    "indent_handlebars": false,
-    "indent_inner_html": false,
-    "indent_size": 2,
-    "indent_scripts": "keep",
-    "max_preserve_newlines": 1,
-    "preserve_newlines": true,
-    "unformatted": [ "a", "span", "img", "code", "pre", "sub", "sup", "em", "strong", "b", "i", "u", "strike", "big", "small", "pre", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6" ],
-    "wrap_line_length": 0
+  'html': {
+    'allowed_file_extensions': [ 'htm', 'html', 'xhtml', 'shtml', 'xml', 'svg' ],
+    'brace_style': 'collapse',
+    'end_with_newline': false,
+    'indent_char': ' ',
+    'indent_handlebars': false,
+    'indent_inner_html': false,
+    'indent_size': 2,
+    'indent_scripts': 'keep',
+    'max_preserve_newlines': 1,
+    'preserve_newlines': true,
+    'unformatted': [ 'a', 'span', 'img', 'code', 'pre', 'sub', 'sup', 'em', 'strong', 'b', 'i', 'u', 'strike', 'big', 'small', 'pre', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6' ],
+    'wrap_line_length': 0
   },
-  "css": {
-    "allowed_file_extensions": [ "css", "scss", "sass", "less" ],
-    "end_with_newline": false,
-    "newline_between_rules": true,
-    "indent_char": " ",
-    "indent_size": 2,
-    "selector_separator": " ",
-    "selector_separator_newline": true
+  'css': {
+    'allowed_file_extensions': [ 'css', 'scss', 'sass', 'less' ],
+    'end_with_newline': false,
+    'newline_between_rules': true,
+    'indent_char': ' ',
+    'indent_size': 2,
+    'selector_separator': ' ',
+    'selector_separator_newline': true
   },
-  "js": {
-    "allowed_file_extensions": [ "js", "json", "jshintrc", "jsbeautifyrc", "sublime-settings" ],
-    "brace_style": "collapse-preserve-inline",
-    "break_chained_methods": false,
-    "e4x": false,
-    "end_with_newline": true,
-    "indent_char": " ",
-    "indent_level": 0,
-    "indent_size": 2,
-    "indent_with_tabs": false,
-    "jslint_happy": false,
-    "keep_array_indentation": false,
-    "keep_function_indentation": false,
-    "max_preserve_newlines": 0,
-    "preserve_newlines": true,
-    "space_after_anon_function": false,
-    "space_before_conditional": true,
-    "space_in_empty_paren": false,
-    "space_in_paren": true,
-    "unescape_strings": false,
-    "wrap_line_length": 0
+  'js': {
+    'allowed_file_extensions': [ 'js', 'json', 'jshintrc', 'jsbeautifyrc', 'sublime-settings' ],
+    'brace_style': 'collapse-presever-inline',
+    'break_chained_methods': false,
+    'e4x': false,
+    'end_with_newline': true,
+    'indent_char': ' ',
+    'indent_level': 0,
+    'indent_size': 2,
+    'indent_with_tabs': false,
+    'jslint_happy': false,
+    'keep_array_indentation': false,
+    'keep_function_indentation': false,
+    'max_preserve_newlines': 0,
+    'preserve_newlines': true,
+    'space_after_anon_function': false,
+    'space_before_conditional': true,
+    'space_in_empty_paren': false,
+    'space_in_paren': true,
+    'unescape_strings': false,
+    'wrap_line_length': 0
   }
-}
+};
 
 function formatFile( absPath, verifyOnly = false ) {
-  let before = fs.readFileSync( absPath, 'utf-8' );
+  const before = fs.readFileSync( absPath, 'utf-8' );
   const formatted = beautify.js( before, OPTIONS );
-  if ( !verifyOnly ){
+  if ( !verifyOnly ) {
     fs.writeFileSync( absPath, formatted, 'utf-8' );
   }
   const alreadySorted = sortImports( absPath, verifyOnly );
-  return alreadySorted && ( before == formatted );
+  return alreadySorted && ( before === formatted );
 }
 
 /**
@@ -79,12 +79,13 @@ function formatFile( absPath, verifyOnly = false ) {
  * @param {Array.<string>} repos
  * @param {boolean} verifyOnly - Don't rewrite files
  */
-module.exports = function( repos, verifyOnly = false) {
+module.exports = function( repos, verifyOnly = false ) {
 
   repos.forEach( repo => {
     grunt.file.recurse(
       `../${repo}/js`,
       absPath => formatFile( absPath, verifyOnly )
-  ) } );
+    );
+  } );
 
-}
+};
diff --git a/js/grunt/sortImports.js b/js/grunt/sortImports.js
index cb46608cb..6c526b463 100644
--- a/js/grunt/sortImports.js
+++ b/js/grunt/sortImports.js
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ module.exports = function( file, verifyOnly = false ) {
   }
 
   const after = lines.join( '\n' );
-  if (!verifyOnly){
+  if ( !verifyOnly ) {
     fs.writeFileSync( file, after, 'utf-8' );
   }
-  return (after == before);
+  return ( after === before );
 };