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In this post, we're going to learn how to setup prettier for apex in VSCode. We're going to use a plugin named as prettier-plugin-apex. Once you've created a salesforce project, the first step is to install Prettier - Code formatter extension.
Click on the Extensions Tab in the left sidebar in your VSCode and search for prettier as shown below:
The first option that you'll see is for Prettier - Code Formatter open that and click on the Install button.
Once you have installed prettier, now it's time to install prettier-plugin-apex. You can install the plugin in your project only by running the command given below:
npm install --save-dev --save-exact prettier prettier-plugin-apex
The output of the above command is given below:
Please note that this will install prettier-plugin-apex locally in your project. If you want to install it globally so that you can use it in all the projects, you can use the below command:
npm install --global prettier prettier-plugin-apex
If you've installed it locally, it'll the package.json file in your salesforce project and you'll find the entry for prettier under scripts as shown below:
npm run prettier
I tried this command in my project, so you can see the sample output below:
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