"prettier.configPath" in vscode's settings.json is ignored

[kjkent]

Summary

VSCode/Prettier ignores the setting "prettier.configPath".

I prefer to have a global config for personal projects than copy/pasting config files to each. In my settings.json, I have tried:

• "prettier.configPath": "/home/kjkent/.config/prettier/prettierrc"
• "prettier.configPath": "${userHome}/.config/prettier/prettierrc"
• "prettier.configPath": "${env:XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/prettier/prettierrc"

I have also tried .prettierrc in case Prettier enforces its config be a dotfile, no change. If it's relevant, if I ask Prettier to format its own rc file, it does so and recognises the existence of the config due to being in the same folder, but, infers it to be a YAML file rather than a JSON file. Logs below.

Github Repository to Reproduce Issue

N/A

Steps To Reproduce:

1. Create $HOME/.config/prettier/prettierrc with the content in "Additional information", and set one of the above strings in VSCode's $HOME/.config/Code/User/settings.json
2. In VS Code, open a JSON file from a folder that is not -- nor a child of -- the folder from step 1.
3. Format the document using the Prettier vscode extension

Expected result

Prettier parses the config file and applies the formatting it specifies

Actual result

Prettier logs show no recognition of the config file, with Prettier falling back to defaults

Additional information

• /home/kjkent/.config/prettier/.prettierrc:

{
  "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/prettierrc",
  "printWidth": 100,
  "tabWidth": 2,
  "useTabs": true,
  "semi": true,
  "singleQuote": true,
  "trailingComma": "all",
  "embeddedLanguageFormatting": "auto",
  "experimentalTernaries": true,
  "endOfLine": "lf",
  "bracketSpacing": true,
  "bracketSameLine": false,
  "jsxSingleQuote": true,
  "quoteProps": "as-needed",
  "requirePragma": false,
  "htmlWhitespaceSensitivity": "css",
  "insertPragma": false,
  "arrowParens": "always",
  "proseWrap": "always"
}

/home/kjkent/.config/Code/User/settings.json:

{
  "workbench.colorTheme": "Tokyo Night",
  "terminal.external.linuxExec": "alacritty",
  "terminal.integrated.allowMnemonics": true,
  "terminal.integrated.cursorBlinking": true,
  "terminal.integrated.cursorStyleInactive": "underline",
  "terminal.integrated.cursorStyle": "underline",
  "terminal.integrated.gpuAcceleration": "on",
  "terminal.integrated.smoothScrolling": true,
  "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
  "editor.fontFamily": "Berkeley Mono",
  "editor.fontLigatures": true,
  "editor.formatOnPaste": true,
  "editor.formatOnType": false,
  "editor.formatOnSave": true,
  "editor.formatOnSaveMode": "file",
  "window.customTitleBarVisibility": "auto",
  "window.dialogStyle": "custom",
  "window.titleBarStyle": "custom",
  "files.autoSave": "afterDelay",
  "explorer.confirmDragAndDrop": false,
  "explorer.confirmDelete": false,
  "files.autoSaveDelay": 5000,
  "prettier.configPath": "/home/kjkent/.config/prettier/.prettierrc",
  "projectManager.supportSymlinksOnBaseFolders": true,
  "projectManager.showParentFolderInfoOnDuplicates": true,
  "projectManager.tags": ["Work", "Web", "Embedded", "Android"],
  "editor.bracketPairColorization.independentColorPoolPerBracketType": true,
  "projectManager.removeCurrentProjectFromList": false,
  "projectManager.git.baseFolders": ["${userHome}/dev"],
  "git.openRepositoryInParentFolders": "never",
  "editor.tabSize": 2,
  "files.exclude": {
    "**/node_modules": true
  },
  "telemetry.telemetryLevel": "off",
  "workbench.iconTheme": "vscode-icons",
  "terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "BerkeleyMono NF"
}

VS Code Version:

Version: 1.90.1
Commit: 611f9bfce64f25108829dd295f54a6894e87339d
Date: 2024-06-11T21:02:43.666Z
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Code/1.90.1 Chrome/122.0.6261.156 Electron/29.4.0 Safari/537.36

Prettier Extension Version:

v10.4.0

OS and version:

Arch Linux
Linux version 6.9.5-arch1-1 (linux@archlinux) (gcc (GCC) 14.1.1 20240522, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.42.0) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:06:37 +0000

Prettier Log Output

["INFO" - 01:51:07] Extension Name: esbenp.prettier-vscode.
["INFO" - 01:51:07] Extension Version: 10.4.0.
["INFO" - 01:51:13] Formatting vscode-userdata:/home/kjkent/.config/Code/User/settings.json
["INFO" - 01:51:13] PrettierInstance:
{
  "doc": {
    "builders": {
      "line": {
        "type": "line"
      },
      "softline": {
        "type": "line",
        "soft": true
      },
      "hardline": {
        "type": "concat",
        "parts": [
          {
            "type": "line",
            "hard": true
          },
          {
            "type": "break-parent"
          }
        ]
      },
      "literalline": {
        "type": "concat",
        "parts": [
          {
            "type": "line",
            "hard": true,
            "literal": true
          },
          {
            "type": "break-parent"
          }
        ]
      },
      "lineSuffixBoundary": {
        "type": "line-suffix-boundary"
      },
      "cursor": {
        "type": "cursor"
      },
      "breakParent": {
        "type": "break-parent"
      },
      "trim": {
        "type": "trim"
      },
      "hardlineWithoutBreakParent": {
        "type": "line",
        "hard": true
      },
      "literallineWithoutBreakParent": {
        "type": "line",
        "hard": true,
        "literal": true
      }
    },
    "printer": {},
    "utils": {},
    "debug": {}
  },
  "version": "2.8.8",
  "util": {},
  "__internal": {
    "errors": {},
    "coreOptions": {
      "CATEGORY_CONFIG": "Config",
      "CATEGORY_EDITOR": "Editor",
      "CATEGORY_FORMAT": "Format",
      "CATEGORY_OTHER": "Other",
      "CATEGORY_OUTPUT": "Output",
      "CATEGORY_GLOBAL": "Global",
      "CATEGORY_SPECIAL": "Special",
      "options": {
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          "since": "1.4.0",
          "category": "Special",
          "type": "int",
          "default": -1,
          "range": {
            "start": -1,
            "end": null,
            "step": 1
          },
          "description": "Print (to stderr) where a cursor at the given position would move to after formatting.\nThis option cannot be used with --range-start and --range-end.",
          "cliCategory": "Editor"
        },
        "endOfLine": {
          "since": "1.15.0",
          "category": "Global",
          "type": "choice",
          "default": [
            {
              "since": "1.15.0",
              "value": "auto"
            },
            {
              "since": "2.0.0",
              "value": "lf"
            }
          ],
          "description": "Which end of line characters to apply.",
          "choices": [
            {
              "value": "lf",
              "description": "Line Feed only (\\n), common on Linux and macOS as well as inside git repos"
            },
            {
              "value": "crlf",
              "description": "Carriage Return + Line Feed characters (\\r\\n), common on Windows"
            },
            {
              "value": "cr",
              "description": "Carriage Return character only (\\r), used very rarely"
            },
            {
              "value": "auto",
              "description": "Maintain existing\n(mixed values within one file are normalised by looking at what's used after the first line)"
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        },
        "filepath": {
          "since": "1.4.0",
          "category": "Special",
          "type": "path",
          "description": "Specify the input filepath. This will be used to do parser inference.",
          "cliName": "stdin-filepath",
          "cliCategory": "Other",
          "cliDescription": "Path to the file to pretend that stdin comes from."
        },
        "insertPragma": {
          "since": "1.8.0",
          "category": "Special",
          "type": "boolean",
          "default": false,
          "description": "Insert @format pragma into file's first docblock comment.",
          "cliCategory": "Other"
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          "since": "0.0.10",
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            {
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            {
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            {
              "value": "babel-ts",
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            {
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            {
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            {
              "value": "espree",
              "since": "2.2.0",
              "description": "JavaScript"
            },
            {
              "value": "meriyah",
              "since": "2.2.0",
              "description": "JavaScript"
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            {
              "value": "css",
              "since": "1.7.1",
              "description": "CSS"
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            {
              "value": "less",
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            {
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              "since": "1.5.0",
              "description": "JSON"
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            {
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            {
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              "description": "JSON.stringify"
            },
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              "description": "Ember / Handlebars"
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              "description": "HTML"
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            {
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        "pluginSearchDirs": {
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          "type": "path",
          "array": true,
          "default": [
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              "value": []
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          ],
          "category": "Global",
          "description": "Custom directory that contains prettier plugins in node_modules subdirectory.\nOverrides default behavior when plugins are searched relatively to the location of Prettier.\nMultiple values are accepted.",
          "cliName": "plugin-search-dir",
          "cliCategory": "Config"
        },
        "printWidth": {
          "since": "0.0.0",
          "category": "Global",
          "type": "int",
          "default": 80,
          "description": "The line length where Prettier will try wrap.",
          "range": {
            "start": 0,
            "end": null,
            "step": 1
          }
        },
        "rangeEnd": {
          "since": "1.4.0",
          "category": "Special",
          "type": "int",
          "default": null,
          "range": {
            "start": 0,
            "end": null,
            "step": 1
          },
          "description": "Format code ending at a given character offset (exclusive).\nThe range will extend forwards to the end of the selected statement.\nThis option cannot be used with --cursor-offset.",
          "cliCategory": "Editor"
        },
        "rangeStart": {
          "since": "1.4.0",
          "category": "Special",
          "type": "int",
          "default": 0,
          "range": {
            "start": 0,
            "end": null,
            "step": 1
          },
          "description": "Format code starting at a given character offset.\nThe range will extend backwards to the start of the first line containing the selected statement.\nThis option cannot be used with --cursor-offset.",
          "cliCategory": "Editor"
        },
        "requirePragma": {
          "since": "1.7.0",
          "category": "Special",
          "type": "boolean",
          "default": false,
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          "category": "Global",
          "default": 2,
          "description": "Number of spaces per indentation level.",
          "range": {
            "start": 0,
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            "step": 1
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        },
        "useTabs": {
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          "category": "Global",
          "type": "boolean",
          "default": false,
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        },
        "embeddedLanguageFormatting": {
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    "optionsModule": {
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        "printer": {},
        "locStart": null,
        "locEnd": null
      }
    },
    "optionsNormalizer": {},
    "utils": {}
  },
  "__debug": {}
}
["INFO" - 01:51:13] File Info:
{
  "ignored": false,
  "inferredParser": "json"
}
["INFO" - 01:51:13] No local configuration (i.e. .prettierrc or .editorconfig) detected, falling back to VS Code configuration
["INFO" - 01:51:13] Prettier Options:
{
  "arrowParens": "always",
  "bracketSpacing": true,
  "endOfLine": "lf",
  "htmlWhitespaceSensitivity": "css",
  "insertPragma": false,
  "singleAttributePerLine": false,
  "bracketSameLine": false,
  "jsxBracketSameLine": false,
  "jsxSingleQuote": false,
  "printWidth": 80,
  "proseWrap": "preserve",
  "quoteProps": "as-needed",
  "requirePragma": false,
  "semi": true,
  "singleQuote": false,
  "tabWidth": 2,
  "trailingComma": "es5",
  "useTabs": false,
  "embeddedLanguageFormatting": "auto",
  "vueIndentScriptAndStyle": false,
  "filepath": "/home/kjkent/.config/Code/User/settings.json",
  "parser": "json"
}
["INFO" - 01:51:13] Formatting completed in 64ms.

Log of formatting /home/kjkent/.config/prettier/.prettierrc:

["INFO" - 02:28:13] Formatting file:///home/kjkent/.config/prettier/.prettierrc
["INFO" - 02:28:13] PrettierInstance:
{
  "doc": {
    "builders": {
      "line": {
        "type": "line"
      },
      "softline": {
        "type": "line",
        "soft": true
      },
      "hardline": {
        "type": "concat",
        "parts": [
          {
            "type": "line",
            "hard": true
          },
          {
            "type": "break-parent"
          }
        ]
      },
      "literalline": {
        "type": "concat",
        "parts": [
          {
            "type": "line",
            "hard": true,
            "literal": true
          },
          {
            "type": "break-parent"
          }
        ]
      },
      "lineSuffixBoundary": {
        "type": "line-suffix-boundary"
      },
      "cursor": {
        "type": "cursor"
      },
      "breakParent": {
        "type": "break-parent"
      },
      "trim": {
        "type": "trim"
      },
      "hardlineWithoutBreakParent": {
        "type": "line",
        "hard": true
      },
      "literallineWithoutBreakParent": {
        "type": "line",
        "hard": true,
        "literal": true
      }
    },
    "printer": {},
    "utils": {},
    "debug": {}
  },
  "version": "2.8.8",
  "util": {},
  "__internal": {
    "errors": {},
    "coreOptions": {
      "CATEGORY_CONFIG": "Config",
      "CATEGORY_EDITOR": "Editor",
      "CATEGORY_FORMAT": "Format",
      "CATEGORY_OTHER": "Other",
      "CATEGORY_OUTPUT": "Output",
      "CATEGORY_GLOBAL": "Global",
      "CATEGORY_SPECIAL": "Special",
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          "since": "1.4.0",
          "category": "Special",
          "type": "int",
          "default": -1,
          "range": {
            "start": -1,
            "end": null,
            "step": 1
          },
          "description": "Print (to stderr) where a cursor at the given position would move to after formatting.\nThis option cannot be used with --range-start and --range-end.",
          "cliCategory": "Editor"
        },
        "endOfLine": {
          "since": "1.15.0",
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          "type": "choice",
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            {
              "since": "1.15.0",
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            {
              "since": "2.0.0",
              "value": "lf"
            }
          ],
          "description": "Which end of line characters to apply.",
          "choices": [
            {
              "value": "lf",
              "description": "Line Feed only (\\n), common on Linux and macOS as well as inside git repos"
            },
            {
              "value": "crlf",
              "description": "Carriage Return + Line Feed characters (\\r\\n), common on Windows"
            },
            {
              "value": "cr",
              "description": "Carriage Return character only (\\r), used very rarely"
            },
            {
              "value": "auto",
              "description": "Maintain existing\n(mixed values within one file are normalised by looking at what's used after the first line)"
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              "description": "JavaScript"
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            {
              "value": "espree",
              "since": "2.2.0",
              "description": "JavaScript"
            },
            {
              "value": "meriyah",
              "since": "2.2.0",
              "description": "JavaScript"
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              "description": "Vue"
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              "description": "YAML"
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              "since": "2.3.0",
              "description": "Ember / Handlebars"
            },
            {
              "value": "html",
              "since": "1.15.0",
              "description": "HTML"
            },
            {
              "value": "angular",
              "since": "1.15.0",
              "description": "Angular"
            },
            {
              "value": "lwc",
              "since": "1.17.0",
              "description": "Lightning Web Components"
            }
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              "value": []
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          "description": "Add a plugin. Multiple plugins can be passed as separate `--plugin`s.",
          "cliName": "plugin",
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              "value": []
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          "category": "Global",
          "description": "Custom directory that contains prettier plugins in node_modules subdirectory.\nOverrides default behavior when plugins are searched relatively to the location of Prettier.\nMultiple values are accepted.",
          "cliName": "plugin-search-dir",
          "cliCategory": "Config"
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          "category": "Global",
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            "step": 1
          },
          "description": "Format code ending at a given character offset (exclusive).\nThe range will extend forwards to the end of the selected statement.\nThis option cannot be used with --cursor-offset.",
          "cliCategory": "Editor"
        },
        "rangeStart": {
          "since": "1.4.0",
          "category": "Special",
          "type": "int",
          "default": 0,
          "range": {
            "start": 0,
            "end": null,
            "step": 1
          },
          "description": "Format code starting at a given character offset.\nThe range will extend backwards to the start of the first line containing the selected statement.\nThis option cannot be used with --cursor-offset.",
          "cliCategory": "Editor"
        },
        "requirePragma": {
          "since": "1.7.0",
          "category": "Special",
          "type": "boolean",
          "default": false,
          "description": "Require either '@prettier' or '@format' to be present in the file's first docblock comment\nin order for it to be formatted.",
          "cliCategory": "Other"
        },
        "tabWidth": {
          "type": "int",
          "category": "Global",
          "default": 2,
          "description": "Number of spaces per indentation level.",
          "range": {
            "start": 0,
            "end": null,
            "step": 1
          }
        },
        "useTabs": {
          "since": "1.0.0",
          "category": "Global",
          "type": "boolean",
          "default": false,
          "description": "Indent with tabs instead of spaces."
        },
        "embeddedLanguageFormatting": {
          "since": "2.1.0",
          "category": "Global",
          "type": "choice",
          "default": [
            {
              "since": "2.1.0",
              "value": "auto"
            }
          ],
          "description": "Control how Prettier formats quoted code embedded in the file.",
          "choices": [
            {
              "value": "auto",
              "description": "Format embedded code if Prettier can automatically identify it."
            },
            {
              "value": "off",
              "description": "Never automatically format embedded code."
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    "optionsModule": {
      "hiddenDefaults": {
        "astFormat": "estree",
        "printer": {},
        "locStart": null,
        "locEnd": null
      }
    },
    "optionsNormalizer": {},
    "utils": {}
  },
  "__debug": {}
}
["INFO" - 02:28:13] File Info:
{
  "ignored": false,
  "inferredParser": "yaml"
}
["INFO" - 02:28:13] Detected local configuration (i.e. .prettierrc or .editorconfig), VS Code configuration will not be used
["INFO" - 02:28:13] Prettier Options:
{
  "filepath": "/home/kjkent/.config/prettier/.prettierrc",
  "parser": "yaml",
  "printWidth": 100,
  "tabWidth": 2,
  "useTabs": true,
  "semi": true,
  "singleQuote": true,
  "trailingComma": "all",
  "embeddedLanguageFormatting": "auto",
  "experimentalTernaries": true,
  "endOfLine": "lf",
  "bracketSpacing": true,
  "bracketSameLine": false,
  "jsxSingleQuote": true,
  "quoteProps": "as-needed",
  "requirePragma": false,
  "htmlWhitespaceSensitivity": "css",
  "insertPragma": false,
  "arrowParens": "always",
  "proseWrap": "always"
}
["INFO" - 02:28:13] Formatting completed in 24ms.

[kjkent]

As an aside, I think the README.md section on configuration is a bit confusing:

• There's a sentence on direct VS Code settings being a fallback for non-project files, and subsection on "Configuring Default Options" in regards to the "prettier.configPath"-defined settings. But, IMO, the function of the VS Code settings resembles what people would expect of "default options". Considering local .prettierrc settings are ignored when prettier.configPath is defined, the configPath settings aren't defaults as they're never defaulted-to; they're enforced. I'd guess more people want to have "their settings" as a backup (currently implemented in VS Code settings) but prioritise project settings, than their settings override project definitions. However the latter is more prominently worded in the docs and with wording I found confusing.

• The last line in the Configuration section says "If any local configuration file is present (i.e. .prettierrc) the VS Code settings will NOT be used.", perhaps in combination with the above, confused me as "prettier.configPath" could be construed as a VS Code setting, yet its presence does the opposite of what's said as it ignores local configuration files.

Edit: The README.md is apparently outdated as there's a section that v10.0.0 will provide Prettier 3.0.0 when it's out of preview. The current extension is v10.40.0 and Prettier is at v3.3, but the extension is bundling 2.8.8. Happy to move this to a new issue if requested.

[kjkent]

After installing Prettier rather than using the built-in, the extension now acknowledges and uses the configuration file defined in prettier.configPath. Perhaps it was due to the extension not recognising useExperimentalTernaries as the version of Prettier it ships predates it? In this case, it would perhaps be preferable to just ignore the unknown option, or, failing that, alert the user to the cause rather than failing silently.

Unfortunately I'll have to wait for an update to use the experimental ternaries option in VS Code settings, it seems