<p>Have you ever needed to create an <a href="https://editorconfig.org/">EditorConfig</a> to your programming projects but can never remember all the options you can use? Worry no more: just type <code>npx create-editorconfig -y</code> in your terminal and have one generated for you. Those are the default options:</p>
<pre><code><div class="highlited-code" data-language=""># editorconfig.org
root = true

[*]
charset = utf-8
end_of_line = lf
insert_final_newline = true
indent_style = space
indent_size = 2
trim_trailing_whitespace = true</div>
</code></pre><p>If you want to customize the settings or even add more for a different set of files (by defining a glob pattern), just ommit the <code>-y</code> argument in the terminal and answer the prompted questions.</p>
<img src="https://github.com/DouglasdeMoura/create-editorconfig/raw/main/usage.svg" alt="Using create-editorconfig on ZSH" />

<h2>What is EditorConfig?</h2>
<p>EditorConfig is a configuration file (the <code>.editorconfig</code>) that defines the coding styles that a given code editor (such as <a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/">VS Code</a>) should apply in the files. You can even set a different set of rules for the files of your project according to your their extension or directory, by using a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)">glob pattern</a>.</p>
<h2>My code editor is not applying the EditorConfig settings</h2>
<p>To apply your <code>.editorconfig</code> rules, your code editor should have a plugin or have EditorConfig rule parsing implemented natively (if you are using VS Code, you must install <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EditorConfig.EditorConfig">this extension</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EditorConfig.EditorConfig"><img src="https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/641onx2wrltmoq1ze501.png" alt="EditorConfig extension on VS Code Marketplace"></a></p>
<h2>How can I contribute to <code>create-editorconfig</code>?</h2>
<p>Please, go to the official <a href="https://github.com/douglasdeMoura/create-editorconfig">GitHub repository</a> and open an issue.</p>
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Douglas Moura

Douglas Moura

#npx

Use this NPM script to create your EditorConfig files