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I just published def_layout, a formatter plugin that lays out a module’s functions: callbacks first in source order, public functions alp...
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You’ve probably seen this: someone writes a perfectly sensible create table with columns in whatever order popped into their head. A bool...
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Hi everyone! I’d like to share ExAlign, a new Mix formatter plugin that adds
gofmt style column alignment on top of the standard Elixir ...
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I just published canonical_tailwind, a formatter plugin that canonicalizes Tailwind CSS utility classes in HEEx templates.
- mr-4 custom...
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LiveView 1.1 ships with a new :inline_matcher HTMLFormatter config that defaults to ["link", "button"].
It’s a great addition that makes...
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I saw this topic getting some traction over on the Erlang Forums, so I want to resurrect this topic here (previous discussion here):
Sh...
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I’ve been recently been doing the “vibe coding” thing a lot using cursor and I’m finding that very frequently the models don’t group live...
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I have recently started messing with Zed as an editor. I really, really like it.
While I don’t go too heavy on extensions, one that I re...
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For example, this is what the current formatter config is generating:
cond do
!String.starts_with?(message, "!!") -> :error...
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I know you can use plugins, but I couldn’t find any in the hex repos for formatting CSS and JS/TS. What’s the recommended solution for this?
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I just published canonical_tailwind, a formatter plugin that canonicalizes Tailwind CSS utility classes in HEEx templates.
- mr-4 custom...
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I just published def_layout, a formatter plugin that lays out a module’s functions: callbacks first in source order, public functions alp...
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I often will get reminded by credo to sort my alias calls like below.
Is there a way I could configure the Elixir formatter (that is kic...
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I’ve been recently been doing the “vibe coding” thing a lot using cursor and I’m finding that very frequently the models don’t group live...
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You’ve probably seen this: someone writes a perfectly sensible create table with columns in whatever order popped into their head. A bool...
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LiveView 1.1 ships with a new :inline_matcher HTMLFormatter config that defaults to ["link", "button"].
It’s a great addition that makes...
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Hi everyone! I’d like to share ExAlign, a new Mix formatter plugin that adds
gofmt style column alignment on top of the standard Elixir ...
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Hey there, doea anybody know if there is a way to configure livebook’s code formatter? Where is its .formatter.exs?
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I’m posting this as a reference as I couldn’t find a post related to this error message.
This issue can arise in umbrella projects that ...
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HEEX formatter (Phoenix.LiveView.HTMLFormatter / mix format) seems to introduce an unexpected line break in the generated html. User erro...
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Go, which I am a massive critic of, got 2 things correct, in my estimation.
The first is gofmt, which actually inspired mix format. But ...
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Hi all,
my editor (neovim + elixir-ls via coc.nvim) does format on save.
Randomly, it adds parenthesis around macros, so I have a diff ...
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For people that love trailing commas, I released v2.0 of the freedom formatter. It is now a plugin for the builtin formatter (requires El...
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I see that Elixir now comes with a .formatter.exs file:
# Used by "mix format"
[
inputs: ["{mix,.formatter}.exs", "{config,lib,test}/**...
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I saw this topic getting some traction over on the Erlang Forums, so I want to resurrect this topic here (previous discussion here):
Sh...
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I use Elixir 1.15.7 OTP 26 both in development (Windows) and on a GitHub runner (ubuntu-latest).
The GH Action fails on: mix format --ch...
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Hi there,
me and my friend are working on the same project and we use the mix format command to format our code. The problem is that he ...
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So after complaining about this for the third or fourth time on this forum, I figured I should make a proposal.
TL;DR
with can be hard t...
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I’m building a library that’s constantly re generating certain modules, building them from string templates. The generated modules includ...
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Hello there, it’s been a while since I used elixir for my development last time.
I’d like to use formatter of mix in my project.
first ...
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I’ve noticed something in my own code, that every time I create a macro, I need to add it to the local_without_parens list in .formatter....
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We’re currently trying to tighten up standards on an existing code base. One of the current topics is about line length, specifically on ...
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Hello folks! Are there any libraries for formatting of HEEx templates?
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Hi people :wave:
We have been working on a Formatter to format Heex templates. The idea is to have a similar experience as we do when fo...
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Hi! I’m wondering if I should use formatter of elixir. I have never used any formatters in past projects.
So do you use formatter? And w...
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Hello everyone, I have a noob question about formatter…
I have this code
@attack_array [
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,5,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,...
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What do y’all think about the defaults of the mix formatter? I often find long lines being being turned into multiple breaks with weird i...
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I’m working my way through the Programming Phoenix > 1.4 book and I’ve got a problem with the formatter.
I’m using Atom with Elixir a...
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Is it possible to configure the formatter to exclude some files?
I’m currently using this as the default .formatter.exs:
[
inputs: ["...
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Here is list of plugins for different editors
Sublime Text 3 — Elixir.tmbundle - https://github.com/elixir-editors/elixir-tmbundle/#co...
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I’d like to propose a silly typespec discussion: what is your style guidelines for writing typespecs?
I mean, do you:
use parentheses ...
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Between Elixir Time and Timex I can’t seem to figure out how to get a simple time and format it conventionally. Does anyone know how to d...
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Hi everybody,
I am working within a Phoenix Umbrella Project and I’m using Elixir-LS in VSCode.
This extension has a setting elixirLS.p...
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I have this .formatter.exs file next to my mix.exs
[
inputs: ["{mix,.formatter}.exs", "{config,lib,test}/**/*.{ex,exs}"],
import_dep...
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Wanted opinion about what would be the best practice to enforce auto formatting in CI pipeline
I was thinking that I could run mix f...
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My partner and I are working on a codebase together and we have something different in our setup that is causing his system to add parens...
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I am using VSCode to do my Phoenix app, however, when modifying the app.css I realized the formatting was literally breaking m...
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