Why I love the Latte Template Engine

[gebeer]

3 minutes ago, bernhard said:

I also have no auto-formatter for latte + vscode, which is a shame. But I try to see that positive and take it as a reminder to keep my template files as simple as possible. Anything more complicated than $page->title is handed over to PHP where I have auto code formatting + intellisense.

I can kind of understand that. But imagine some html structure with more than 3 levels of depth. Then you remove some wrapper deep in the structure and now you have to manually mark the relevant section and move it back 1 tab. That is just a waste of time imo. I prefer to just hit my short key for Format Document and done. It really is a shame that there are no formatters out there for latte. Guess it is too much of a niche template engine.

I even tried to use the blade formatter. But didn't work for me.

Honestly, little things like that have kept me from using Latte at all in the past. Now I took another try and hitting the wall again. Guess, I will just revert to pure PHP and be happy with that :-)

[bernhard]

6 minutes ago, gebeer said:

That is just a waste of time imo.

Yes and no. I have had several situations with auto-formatters where the output was not what I'd like to have, but it kept reformatting to its own wish. There was no way to change that other than turning off auto-formatting.

Latte has so many great features. I agree that it is a little pain to not have proper auto-formatting and intellisense, but I think the pro's outweigh the con's by far. But please report it to the folks of nette. You have my support and @Yipper had similar issues recently. And I think there are many others as well. Maybe we can initiate something 🙂 

[gebeer]

I just managed to get the Blade Formatter extension (https://open-vsx.org/extension/shufo/vscode-blade-formatter) working with Latte files :-)

I needed to use the Blade Formatter from the actions menu:

Although I have it defined as a default formatter for latte files in settings.json, the default formatting command always asks for a formatter.

"[latte]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "shufo.vscode-blade-formatter"
  },

But pressing Shift+P and enter to trigger the Blade formatter from the list is still much better than manual formatting :-)