Force a blank line like refmt with /** */ comment

[vramana]

I have observed that this made me document code more often.

[jlongster]

Can you expand on this more? I don't remember exactly what this behavior is.

[vramana]

refmt would normally remove all the blank lines btween the let declarations. So,

let a = 2;

let b = 3;

will become

let a = 2;
let b = 3;

But if you use a comment /** */ between them i.e,

let a = 3;
/** My Comment */
let b = 4;

It inserts a new line above the comment.

let a = 3;

/** My Comment */
let b = 4;

[jlongster]

Ah interesting. Today I landed rules for newlines, and it keeps the original newlines. Meaning if you had

let a = 2;
let b = 3;

that's what it would output. However if you had:

let a = 2;

let b = 3;

It would output that as well. Lastly, if you have multiple blank lines like:

let a = 2;



let b = 3;

It will collapse them into a single newline.

I don't think we can be as opinionated as refmt because there are so many existing JS coding styles. I tried coming up with automatic ways to insert newlines, but it's pretty difficult.

I like the idea that it encourages you to document in order to group things up. I'm open to talking more about this, so I'll leave this open. @vjeux what do you think?

[vjeux]

I know about the refmt way of doing things but I still think that it's better to preserve lines inputted by the user. It seems super arbitrary to have to add a comment to make sure lines are displayed the way you want. Also, adding more comments is not a good thing in itself. I'd rather have comments on why things are done this way rather than commenting on how each line works.