Using Standard with VSCode

I use Visual Studio Code as my text editor. When I write JavaScript, I follow JavaScript Standard Style.

There’s an easy way to integrate Standard in VS Code—with the vscode-standardjs plugin. I made a video for this some time ago if you’re interested in setting it up.

But, if you follow the instructions in the video (or on vscode-standardjs’s readme file), you’ll come to notice there’s one small detail that needs to be ironed out.

Try writing a function the old way, and save it repeatedly. VS code will toggle between having and not having a space before the left-parenthesis of the function.

You get the same problem when you write methods with the ES6 method shorthands:

There’s a quick way to fix this issue.

What you need to do is set javascript.format.enable to false. This disables VS Code’s default Javascript formatter (and lets vscode-standandjs does the formatting work).

So the minimum configuration you need to get Standard and VS Code to work together is:

{
  // Prevents VS Code from formatting JavaScript with the default linter
  "javascript.format.enable": false,

  // Prevents VS Code linting JavaScript with the default linter
  "javascript.validate.enable": false,

  // Lints with Standard JS
  "standard.enable": true,

  // Format files with Standard whenever you save the file
  "standard.autoFixOnSave": true,

  // Files to validate with Standard JS
  "standard.validate": [
    "javascript",
    "javascriptreact"
  ]
}