Adding Language Specific Settings in VSCode

Kyle Shevlin
InstructorKyle Shevlin
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Published 4 years ago
Updated 3 years ago

Developers can optimize their VSCode settings per language. In this lesson, I show an example where I add settings specifically for MDX files. This pattern can be used to adjust settings for any language supported by VSCode.

The settings used in this lesson are:

"[mdx]": {
  "editor.wordWrap": "bounded",
  "editor.wordWrapColumn": 80
}

Instructor: [00:00] Lately, I've been writing a lot of blog posts in MDX, a language that allows us to combine markdown and JSX together. I don't like that my editor makes the text go further than 80 characters. That's where this line is, right here.

[00:14] I'd like to update that specifically for MDX. How do I do that? I can go down to the language, here in the bottom right, in VSCode. I can click on it, and I can select, "Configure Markdown React Language based settings." This opens up my settings.json file, and opens up an object with the key MDX.

[00:31] From here, I can paste in some settings that I have, and I can save it. When I go back, you could see that it's updated.

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