How to: Enable automatic import sorting in VS Code

There’s a VS Code setting that enables automatic organizing of imports on file saves.

It primarily does two things:

• sorts imports based on ESLint settings
• removes any unused imports

Aside from being a timesaver, this also avoids linting errors (which is especially useful in CI/CD codebases where linting errors will stop a job from completing).

What’s great is you can set it in your user or project settings and forget about it, and it’s only a couple lines.

// settings.json

{
  // put this in your settings object
  "editor.codeActionsOnSave": {
    "source.organizeImports": true,
  },
}

And that’s it! Now when you save, your imports magically sort themselves out!

Comments

[DerZyklop]

@nikkizol not sure about how vscode does it, but if you let eslint do the job (via eslint-plugin-imports) instead of vscode, then you can achieve this with the setting option "newlines-between": "never",.

[Mykyta Zholkovskyi]

Hi, I have source.organizeImports but it doesn't remove blank lines between import declarations, it there any rule for this one?