Keep the empty line at the beginning of a function, if present.

[electrotype]

I'm new to Prettier (for Typescript) and I like pretty much all the decisions it makes except the one that removes the empty line at the beginning of a function.

I wish Prettier would keep such empty line if there's one, the same way it keeps an empty line elsewhere in the function.

For example :

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beforeEach(async () => {

  // Sets the server port
  serverPort = 123;

  // The previous empty line is kept
});

would stay as is, and not reformatted to:

beforeEach(async () => {
  // Sets the server port
  serverPort = 123;

  // The previous empty line is kept
});

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But if there is no empty line, none would be added :

beforeEach(async () => {
  // Sets the server port
  serverPort = 123;

  // The previous empty line is kept
});

would also stay as is.

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Any chance we can have this feature?

[lydell]

Hi!

Empty lines have been discussed a lot, and Prettier has settled on its current "at most one blank line in a row, and no blank lines at the start and end of things" rule which seems to reasonable in 99% of the cases. Here is the most similar issue I could find right now: #2352.

I'm closing this one since it does not seem like this will be changed. Sorry! Feel free to comment here if I missed something.

[electrotype]

Thanks @lydell . Sorry to ask, but do you know of another issue or article with more information on why this won't be supported?

I think it's the only odd choice Prettier makes.
Mostly when the first line of a function is a comment, it think it's ugly (my opinion)...

[lydell]

This answer about allowing 2 blank lines in a row could be helpful: #1613 (comment)

[iamdanthedev]

@lydell Could you please kindly point to the file and line where this rule is implemented, I just thought of forking the lib because of this option, but feel quite lost looking at the code
Thanks!