No space before opening parenthesis on auto format in VS Code

Question

If I press Shift + Alt + F to let VS Code format my JS source code it converts

for(var key in indexObj)

to

for (var key in indexObj)

How can I prevent VS Code to do that?

Answer 1

• Install the beautify plugin for VSCode
• Create a .jsbeautifyrc file. Take this one as an example
• Set its space_before_conditional value to false
• Place the file in your home directory to use it globally or place it in the same folder as the .js are located which you want to format
• Press Shift+Alt+F to get your code formatted