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Prettier Autoformat for TypeScript not Working

Timo Ernst on October 09, 2020

For me Prettier has been doing an awesome job when auto-formatting JavaScript code on save. However, when using TypeScript files with React/JSX (.t...
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Vlasa Andrei •

Thanks a lot! I watched about 3 tutorials and read some blogs on how-to, I completely missed that you need typescriptreact added in the settings so it would work for .tsx too. I can not thank you enough!

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Neeraj Lagwankar •

Thank you so much!

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DuyetVu2001 •

Thank you so much!

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Goran •

Thank you.

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Saroj Padhan •

Thank you .. 😊 .

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Max •

how to do on the windows10?

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Timo Ernst •

Ctrl + Shift + P

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Saroj Padhan •

OPen the vscode and press Ctrl + P

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lakinduchandula •

It worked! thank you

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Hamza •

Wow, this was exactly what I was looking for!

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Phreak Castic •

Wow this article just saved me !!!

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smboy86 •

it works...
thanks

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Jack McBride •

Thanks!

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Rawdyn Nutting •

After an embarrassing amount of time trying to figure out why prettier-plugin-tailwindcss was not working just for tsx files, I came across this post.
This was indeed the solution so thank you!

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Shubham Verma •

Are you sure .tx is Typescript and not .ts ?

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Timo Ernst • • Edited

Actually it's supposed to be .tsx :-) (fixed in post)
Good catch tho! Thanks for pointing out.

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Victor Jonah •

Thank you!

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Christopher Hampton •

Yes, thank you!!

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Threadripper92 •

Thanks for this.