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I always liked the feeling of looking at a well-formatted piece of code. But discussions about formatting always ensued with coworkers.

Lately, I've been deriving immense satisfaction from pressing Ctrl+Shift+I inside VSCode, and having Prettier format absolutely everything, with its sensible default settings and no leeway for discussion. It feels good.

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I'm in love of Black formatter for python code: it leaves almost no option for formatting preferences. Format on save and you are done. It clears mental cycles for the important problems and make formatting discussions a thing of the past.

Same, also isort. I don’t think about it anymore unless for some reason my file watcher isn’t running.

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