Handling formatting inconsistency

[PuruVJ]

Even though we have Prettier set up, still some code with inconsistent formatting just shows up.

This is highly understandable, as not everyone is aware of Prettier or the shortcut combinations to automatically format their files in VSCode.

Inconsistent formatting is not a very big issue, but it's a good practice to have good code in place. It shows professionalism. Lot of seasoned programmers scoff at projects with inconsistent formatting, and this may decrease our turn in of new developers.

Solution

I suggest 2 solutions:

1. A bot: We can write a bot that will once in a while run prettier from command line in Github Actions and format the code.
2. Once in a while, someone will run prettier at their end, separate from any code changes, and have those merged.

The command is npx prettier --write "./**/*.{html,css,js}"

prettier is already locally installed in package.json.

My opinion: 1st one is too overkill right now, as we don't have too much members. The 2nd seems good enough and feasible. Once in a few weeks, me or someone else will just do the task of formatting only. Formatting doesn't break any code, so it's perfectly safe

I need your thoughts @twindle-co/developer

[PuruVJ]

This has been resolved in #926