How to Set up a Formatting Standard in Your Code Editor (And Why You Should!)

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The EditorConfig file is used by editors and IDEs to define editor preferences for the project. Without it, IDEs and editors will use their general configuration, causing divergences in the files edited on them. In this post I'll show how to maintain a standard for everyone who works in the code, no matter the editor used. In the next post, I'll talk about how to enforce these (and other) rules on build and in the continuous integration pipeline.