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Bruno Pinela
Bruno Pinela

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Setup NextJs | EsLint + Prettier - Fast way 🚀

First of all, lets create a nextJs application:
npx create-next-app@latest

Then add this package to set prettier configuration for eslint to avoid conflicts between eslint and prettier
npm install --save-dev eslint-config-prettier

On eslint.config.mjs file at your project root add "prettier" at eslintConfig extends:

const eslintConfig = [
  ...compat.extends("next/core-web-vitals", "next/typescript", "prettier"),
];
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then change eslintConfig:

const eslintConfig = [
  ...compat.config({
    extends: ["next/core-web-vitals", "next/typescript", "prettier"],
  }),
]
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The idea is make it able to you can add your specific rules like

const eslintConfig = [
  ...compat.config({
    extends: ["next/core-web-vitals", "next/typescript", "prettier"],
    rules: {
      "react/react-in-jsx-scope": "off",
    },
  }), 
]
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Now that you setup all eslint configuration lets make all the prettier formatters works, creating a .prettierrc file at project root and add:

{
  "semi": false,
  "singleQuote": true,
  "tabWidth": 2,
  "printWidth": 80,
  "trailingComma": "es5"
}
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NOTE: HERE I ADDED MY PERSONAL CHOICE OF PRETTIER CONFIGURATION, BUT YOU CAN ADD YOURS, FOLLOWING PRETTIER DOCUMENTATION (https://prettier.io/docs/en/options.html)

Now everything is up!
But to it works fine, make sure you have ESlint and Prettier extensions installed on your VsCode

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Also, VsCode offers to you some ways to auto format your code and apply all your rules on save action for example
You can just create a .vscode folder at project root and inside of it a settings.json file
with the following content:

{
  "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
  "editor.formatOnSave": true,
  "editor.codeActionsOnSave": {
    "source.fixAll.eslint": "always",
    "source.removeUnusedImports": "always"
  }
}
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And again, VsCode has a lot of options of settings
you can take a look here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/settings

For now, that is it guys :)
Hope I could help you!

If you have any suggestions for improving this article or know a better way to approach it, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.

Cya!

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