Prettier: Why Prettier recommend against using more than 80 columns?
Would like to know How this decision was taken and why?
jitendravyas
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Prettier works by cramming as much content as possible until it reaches the limit, which happens to work well for 80 columns but makes lines that are very crowded. When a bigger column count is used in styleguides, it usually means that code is allowed to go beyond 80 columns, but not to make every single line go there, like Prettier would do.
k15a
on 1 Jul 2017
Maybe I'm not as intelligent to understand that part of the readme. Could you please try to rephrase it?
jitendravyas
on 1 Jul 2017
Prettier will always put as much code as it can into a line. Normally when you have a line length of 120 in a style guide you mean that this is the maximum length and you will usually keep the line length at around 80 chars anyway. Prettier, on the other hand, will put as much code as it can in one line so every line will be at around 110 - 120 characters. This is harder to read than around 80 characters.
k15a
on 1 Jul 2017
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Prettier will always put as much code as it can into a line. Normally when you have a line length of 120 in a style guide you mean that this is the maximum length and you will usually keep the line length at around 80 chars anyway. Prettier, on the other hand, will put as much code as it can in one line so every line will be at around 110 - 120 characters. This is harder to read than around 80 characters.