How to stop vscode beautify or prettier from preserving newlines when formatting javascript code?

Question

I want to remove all the newlines/extra lines when I save the code. I found this settings in Atom but not in VSCode. How can I do that?

Answer 1

You can set the VSCode setting html.format.preserveNewLines to false . It will be recognized by Beautify, but works only for HTML files.

The alternative to apply the setting for all files recognized by Beautify is to add a file named .jsbeautifyrc at the root of the workspace, with the following content:

{
   "preserve_newlines": false
}

Also, the VSCode setting editor.formatOnSave should be set to true . To do it you can create the file .vscode/settings.json with the next content:

{
    "editor.formatOnSave": true
}

The settings.json file, located at the .vscode folder in the root of the workspace, allows to configure the VSCode settings to be applied for the current workspace.

Answer 2

You can also set Trim Final New lines to on and set Max Preserve New lines to your need.