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Prettier not working in VS Code

I installed "Prettier", set Editor as Format On Save and set Prettier as the Default Formatter, but it is still not working. These are my settings.json:

{
    "prettier.embeddedLanguageFormatting": "auto",
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
    "[javascript]": {
        "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode"
    },
    "[typescript]": {
        "editor.defaultFormatter": "vscode.typescript-language-features"
    },
    "[typescriptreact]": {
        "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode"
    }
}
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Nihir's avatar

I think you should try this extension

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ClemensPeters.format-json

and the prettier code formator extension is mainly working for HTML patterns

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