Prettier #

Create-vitepress-app offers an option to enable Prettier in your project, Prettier is a tool that can help you to format your Javascript/Typescript code, Markdown, JSON, and other formats present in your project.

If you chose to enable Prettier in your Vitepress app, you'll see a few extra files than normal, .prettierignore and .prettierrc.json. .prettierignore is a file that contains a list of folders and files that prettier will not format, like node_modules and the like. And .prettierrc.json is a file that contains configuration options that prettier will follow when formatting, by default Create-vitepress-app contains a single rule which is to make tabs have a width of 2 spaces.

Usage #

To format all files in your app, simply run the following command in your terminal:

$ npx prettier --write .

To format all markdown files in folder:

$ npx prettier --write folder/**/*.md

To format all files in the root directory:

$ npx prettier --write ./*

You can learn more about Prettier's CLI here.

Resources #

• Prettier Docs