On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:39:14 +0100

Erik Jan de Wit <edewit@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I saw that there was some discussion about whitespace in a javascript file
> on  a PR yesterday. Now it seems to me that among the things to discuss
> whitespace is just noise, especially because formatting can be done
> automatically. Talking with qmx and lholmquist about this it seems that JS
> land doesn't have good tools for this.
>
> To have something in the mean time we could use something like the eclipse
> formatter, because it can format JS has a ton of options and there are
> already a lot of external tools that use it:
>
> https://github.com/krasa/EclipseCodeFormatter
> https://code.google.com/p/maven-java-formatter-plugin
> http://liviutudor.com/2012/03/02/batch-source-formatting-in-eclipse-indigo/
>
> So how about having something like this that will format our JS for us? We
> could integrate something like this in our build, or that or create our own
> CLI tool as long as we have something that will work so that we don't have to
> discuss formatting anymore, what do you think?

Not only JavaScript. For instance, it would be great to have Maven Checkstyle
Plugin for Java/Android.

>
> Cheers,
>       Erik Jan
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