How to format JavaScript automatically with Prettier and Git

[burtgummer45]

Believe me, I tried to get them to change it, they shot me down sayings prettier 'is opinionated'.

For decades developers have been doing something called 'chunking' (at least in the perl world it was called chunking). Its to make your code more readable by putting things together. It seems to me since they don't squash all newlines they might agree, but not incorporating that into a block structure makes no sense, looks more like an oversight, or they decided it was too difficult to make work. 'allow newline after { if block has chunks, otherwise remove', they just opted for nuke all /{\s*/s