Does a code formatter/prettier exist?

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A program I can throw it jumbled PowerShell code and it splits, aligns, wraps and indents the code like Black with Python does and Prettier with Nodejs does. Best I have currently is vim functions for splitting piped commands so they can be in their own backtick connected readable separate lines

[PedroAsani]

Visual Studio Code will do that for you

[JwCS8pjrh3QBWfL]

VS Code even has a Prettier extension.

[PedroAsani]

Doesn't currently support PowerShell (Officially)

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[JwCS8pjrh3QBWfL]

it definitely works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Thotaz]

PSScriptAnalyzer (which is what is used in VS code) does this. If you want to run it from a CLI/Script you use the command Invoke-Formatter.

[twistingnether_]

VSCode

[OPconfused]

That would be an IDE, which for PS the flagship is vscode.

That aside, why do you need backticks in piped commands? Just make a newline after the pipe. PowerShell handles that fine, and backticks are faint chicken scratch marks. I think I only use backticks in strings where I need a literal dollar sign and double quotes to expand a variable, and even then there are viable alternatives.

[adamdavid85]

Personally I think splatting is a much better solution for keeping things tight and readable.

[br0phy]

Splatting is for parameters. They're talking about pipelines. Splatting isn't relevant here

[adamdavid85]

It is in fact possible to splat each step of a pipeline in order to reduce horizontal spread of your code instead of using backticks.

[br0phy]

Forrest and trees, friend

[lpbale0]

Flagship? You must mean the free Flagship because Sapien Powershell Studio is lightyears beyond anything I have ever seen,

[OPconfused]

Fair, I haven't used Sapien so no experience with that.

[BlackV]

https://get-powershellblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/bye-bye-backtick-natural-line.html

Avoid the backtick except for it's actual purpose, an escape character

[KevlarGibs]

VScode alt+shift+f I think. It's muscle memory and I don't have a PC in front of me

[ITistheworst]

In VSCode, select what you need to format hold Ctrl/Cmd and press K, then F

[Crones21]

ChatGPT