Prettier shell script format

Question

Can I format template literal embedded shell script with Prettier?

Example:

Before formating:

import {bash} from 'random-bash-runner'

await bash`
a_bash_command argument1 \
     main-dev \
argument4 --database=name --quiet`

After formatting:

import {bash} from 'random-bash-runner'

await bash`
  a_bash_command argument1 \
    main-dev \
    argument4 l \
    --database=name --quiet
`

Thanks

Answer 1

Prettier can, with the setting --embedded-language-formatting=auto (see here ), format templates.

However, the languages it can format (from it's extension page on VSCode) are:

JavaScript · TypeScript · Flow · JSX · JSON
CSS · SCSS · Less
HTML · Vue · Angular
GraphQL · Markdown · YAML

So I'm afraid no, this cannot be accomplished by Prettier as bash or shell are not on this list.

Answer 2

Prettier cannot format bash files. Instead you can try either shell-format or Bash Beautify extensions for VSCode to format your bash scripts.