I was about to switch to VS for that reason and then I discovered Tide, which works grest as a React Typescript mode for me.
But to be honest I only use Emacs because 28 years of using it has made it feel like home, I don't usually recommend it to new people.
Re:Making Emacs Popular Again
by timmy-turner on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:32AM
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Tide + https://github.com/jscheid/prettier.el + projectile + helm work wonders. Been using this for +3 years now and its one of the bigger productivity improvements in my recent years of emacs and programming practice.
At work, I actually try to get ppl away from Jetbrains IDEs because they are slow and their typescript and prettier support seems pretty buggy to me.
Unfortunately, most developers I meet these times are not the kind of hacker types that want to understand and optimize their tools but rather just to get stuff done on the surface (which is totally fine). So emacs isn't just a good fit for them.
> prettier support
I use emacs/tide/prettier-js, but the prettier formatting only happens on save. Do you have settings that make emacs adhere to prettier formatting as it goes along?
The difference is I can make Emacs do things just the way I want it vs can it do what I need it to do? And I find that for most part I don't miss it that much (even I'm shocked) but I still open Emacs for Magit from time to time, because there's just nothing else like it, and boy is Magit slow when I have to merge big changes (probably exacerbated by Emacs Mac port's slow vfork).