Feature Request: breakBeforeElse

I know the goal of prettier is to standardize on a style, but it is also difficult since this did not come out at the same time as the language.

Our team uses the exact same style as prettier except placement for else statements. It is effectively blocking us from adopting this awesome library.

We prefer break before else to allow for cleaner comments.

// This does something
if (a) {
}
// This does something else if
else if {

}
// This does something else
else {

}

Which is nicer than.

// This does something
if (a) {

// This does something else if
} else if {

// This does something else
} else {

}

However this is preference and would be awesome if this was added as an option to prettier.

@vjeux showed how easy it is to do https://github.com/prettier/prettier/pull/837 and apparently @jlongster likes it 😃 https://twitter.com/jlongster/status/834407714965057540

[Kerrick]

This feels like one of those “I can’t adopt prettier unless” options that was mentioned in the 1.0 release blog post. I’m in the die-hard camp of else being on its own line for the sake of our eyes scanning down a single column to see if there is an else block. I can’t really see myself adopting prettier without a breakBeforeElse option.

[vjeux]

We are past 1.0 and are not going to do any major formatting changes to prettier or add more options. Feel free to use prettier-miscellaneous if you do want it.