diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index df98b39..828b6e7 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -15,5 +15,4 @@ Imports:
     rlang,
     Rserve
 Suggests:
-    testthat (>= 3.0.0),
-    js
+    testthat (>= 3.0.0)
diff --git a/R/helpers.R b/R/helpers.R
index eaee05f..e0a7d11 100644
--- a/R/helpers.R
+++ b/R/helpers.R
@@ -3,10 +3,7 @@ h3 <- function(x) {
 }
 
 
-
+# TODO: figure out how to format (modern) JS code from R?
 format_js <- function(x) {
-    if (!requireNamespace("js", quietly = TRUE)) {
-        return(x)
-    }
-    js::uglify_reformat(x, beautify = TRUE)
+    x
 }