🔗 Automatically format code on file save in Visual Studio Code

Manually formatting code can be tedious, especially in fast-paced or collaborative development environments.

While consistent formatting is essential for readability and maintainability, doing it by hand slows you down and sometimes leads to inconsistent results across a project.

In this article, I’ll walk you through the steps to configure Visual Studio Code to automatically format your code each time you save a file.

We'll use the VS Code extension called Prettier, one of the most widely adopted tools for enforcing code style in JavaScript, TypeScript, and many other languages.

By the end of this guide, you'll have a setup that keeps your code clean with zero extra effort.