Key-spacing alignment problem.

I really like intelliJ Idea style object alignment. But I didn’t create a linting rule for desired alignment style. For instance the following snippet is properly formatted in My IDE.

let items = {
  item115: {
    id      : 100,
    name    : 'item1',
    itemList: [1, 2, 3]
  },
  item2  : {
    id      : 101,
    name    : 'item2',
    itemList: [1, 2, 3]
  }
};

My key-spacing rule is:

{
  "key-spacing"    : [
    "error",
    {
      "singleLine": {
        "beforeColon": false,
        "afterColon" : true
      },
      "multiLine" : {
        "beforeColon": true,
        "afterColon" : true,
        "align"      : "colon"
      }
    }
  ]
}

IMHO multiLine beforeColon option should be three stated. true, false and off. Is there a way to properly linting above code snippet?

[btmills]

@firatkucuk thanks, let’s see if we can get support from the team to accept this so you can start working.

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To the team: We had an accepted proposal in #2668 that would support IntelliJ-style alignment in key-spacing, but the issue was closed when nobody was interested in working on it. @firatkucuk has volunteered to work on a PR, so I’ll copy the proposal here and see what you all think.

A new option "grouping" which has two possible values:

• "multi-line" (default): Values spanning multiple lines end their group
• "empty-line": Blank lines (no comments, no code, just whitespace) create new groups

I do think we should support IntelliJ-style alignment, so I’ll champion.

[nzakas]

Unfortunately, it looks like there wasn’t enough interest from the team or community to implement this change. While we wish we’d be able to accommodate everyone’s requests, we do need to prioritize. We’ve found that issues failing to be implemented after 90 days tend to never be implemented, and as such, we close those issues. This doesn’t mean the idea isn’t interesting or useful, just that it’s not something the team can commit to.