Must have VSCode extensions for Front end developers
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Re: Must have VSCode extensions for Front end developers
#2I dislike prettier, imo it is too aggressive all around. I understand the lack of configurability is intentional (to force consistency on a macro scale) but I don’t like its style. Anyone have any good experiences with a more configurable formatter? Looking for one to adapt to existing coding style in a several years-old multi-application project.
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#3Would love to hear about other extensions Frontend engineers use. Let me know in the comments :-D
Re: Must have VSCode extensions for Front end developers
#4I dislike prettier, imo it is too aggressive all around. I understand the lack of configurability is intentional (to force consistency on a macro scale) but I don’t like its style. Anyone have any good experiences with a more configurable formatter? Looking for one to adapt to existing coding style in a several years-old multi-application project.
Even I find it annoying many times. I disable it for all my personal projects. But I have found it to be very helpful for larger projects which has contributions for a large number of developers. It helps reduce unnecessary discussions around styling which people will disagree on all the time.
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#5I dislike prettier, imo it is too aggressive all around. I understand the lack of configurability is intentional (to force consistency on a macro scale) but I don’t like its style. Anyone have any good experiences with a more configurable formatter? Looking for one to adapt to existing coding style in a several years-old multi-application project.
Why do you care about its style so much?
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#6I dislike prettier, imo it is too aggressive all around. I understand the lack of configurability is intentional (to force consistency on a macro scale) but I don’t like its style. Anyone have any good experiences with a more configurable formatter? Looking for one to adapt to existing coding style in a several years-old multi-application project.
I've found that consistency trumps all aesthetic bike-shedding and hobby horses.
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#7Emmet is horrifyingly useful when you're typing html by hand. You may even forget where and / are located.
Re: Must have VSCode extensions for Front end developers
#8I dislike prettier, imo it is too aggressive all around. I understand the lack of configurability is intentional (to force consistency on a macro scale) but I don’t like its style. Anyone have any good experiences with a more configurable formatter? Looking for one to adapt to existing coding style in a several years-old multi-application project.
Why do you care about its style so much?
It's a bit annoying when you have a large project then someone introduces prettier. Suddenly every pull request has dozens of random formatting changes everywhere and it obscures the actual changes. It also completely nullifies the functionality of git blame (I know there are other ways to see the file history).
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#9I am not sure what it does here.
On VSCode there is a nice recommendation system, based on file types and vox populi (so one can see if other people use it). I wish other pieces of software hard it as well. (For Sublime Text there is https://packagecontrol.io/, but it requires checking with an external website.)
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As a side note, do you know if there is a VSCode REPL for TypeScript? There is the console, but it is static in the sense - once can run the whole file. I have a lot of experience with Jupyter Notebook for Python, and it is a kind of tool that for some prototyping (especially in numerics) makes things orders of magnitude faster to detect, and fix, errors.
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#10Do you really need autoprefixer nowadays?