prettier-java VS fmt-maven-plugin

I ended up, from a friend suggestion, looking into a java prettier plugin. Prettier allowed for an easy integration with most Web IDE, can be configured to format on save for vscode and is trivial to run in CI.

Prettier does not natively support Java, they have a community plugin for Java https://github.com/jhipster/prettier-java (link is from prettier.io) are you using this? I don't use prettier with Java though, Im not sure it works with the VS Code extension out of the box. prettier by itself is a separate thing from the VS Code extension

I didn’t realize prettier was used for other languages. I’ve been kinda frustrated with our java formatter at work, so I took a look at the prettier java formatter: https://github.com/jhipster/prettier-java

Prettier has support for Java. https://github.com/jhipster/prettier-java

Did you know Prettier for Java is a JHipster project?

https://github.com/spotify/fmt-maven-plugin (formerly coveo) both to format before commit and to check on ci that the formatting is correct.

Coveo is another one that's easier to set up because /drumroll - there are no configurations at all. It uses the google java format which, as /u/dpash pointed out in his response has 2 space indentation and comically short lines. I'm not advocating 300 line lengths or anything, but google's style is very rigid in that regard. I've actually gotten used to the 2 space thing.