Please allow users to ignore having Prettier run on settings.json in VS Code

[nikitavoloboev]

I get this issue every time :

I know its due to the fact that comments are not allowed in JSON but I need to use them for my personal reference. Please allow ignoring of certain files to be run by prettier. Thank you.

[josephfrazier]

This seems to be a duplicate of (some combination of) the following:

• (json-to-ast) Cannot Tokenize Symbol </> at (1:1) prettier-vscode#149 (comment)
• Ignore spesific files #2195
• .json which include comments #2378

[azz]

The next release will support .prettierignore, but #2476 should fix this.

[nikitavoloboev]

Hi @azz

I can't quite understand how to use #2476 to fix this issue. Can you help?

[CiGit]

#2476 is not yet released, but it will allow comments in JSON.

In the meantime, if you use prettier-vscode, you can disable prettier on JSON files and use the default formatter provided with VSCode. To do so, add in your settings:
prettier.jsonEnable: []
I just noticed it's missing from our Readme 😕

Edit: Fixed our readme

[telemmaite]

I have auto generated package.json with comments from ExtJS Sencha CMD,
prettier.jsonEnable: []
This is no longer working!
It tries to parse package.json to discover configuration even though I have .prettierignore and .prettierrc

Error is obvious :
package.json /** ^: JSONError: Unexpected token '/' at 2:5 in

[suchipi]

@telemmaite Could you open a separate issue with some more information? Sounds like it's different from this one.

[telemmaite]

@suchipi I did open the issue here: prettier/prettier-vscode#429