Run cheap formatting before semantic formatting
Normalize whitespace with a fast folder pass before the full solution formatter runs.
How Stripe used this technique
Read what Stripe changed and follow the original sources.
Run cheap formatting before semantic formatting
Stripe .NET added a folder-based whitespace pass ahead of its existing solution formatter, which still runs.
- Use it when
- Generated code makes a formatter’s full analysis expensive.
- Before applying it
- Keep the semantic pass and its output, and measure the two passes together against the old single pass.
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