prettier-plugin-erb
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adamzapasnik
Why add whitespace between % and # in comments?
This plugin adds whitespace between <% and # in comments, like this <% # Comment %>. In the old days, whitespace before the # was not only actively discouraged, but would potentially screw up HTML rendering. The most correct syntax was <%# Comment %>. This is also the syntax examples in the official Rails API to this day. I hadn't even seen the whitespace variant until today.
More subjective data point: I find the whitespace makes the file harder to parse with my eyes. I'm used to looking for the character following the %. Whitespace means ruby block, = means output/render, and # means comment. Having whitespace in comments too makes it harder to scan.
Is there a different reason for this standard I don't know about?
