Cannot install Prettier-PHP Plugin to VScode _WITHOUT_ Javascript-based npm or yarn

starfishpatkhoo commented 4 years ago

Hi all, I'm reposting this from https://github.com/prettier/plugin-php/issues/1537 since the plugin is not responsible for editor integration.

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Summary: I want to use Prettier and its Prettier-PHP Plugin in VSCode.

Background: I'm trying to switch to VSCode and I didn't even know of Prettier until I saw a blog post talking about the best extensions in 2020 for VSCode. It works for me with SCSS, HTML, JS, YAML and even JSON config files. It works great and I have "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode" for all files. Format on save as well as CTRL-SHIFT-P > Format Document works great.

But, I am primarily a small-time nobody PHP developer. I don't have or use NodeJS or npm or yarn. Is there a Wiki or some instruction somewhere how to:

Download this plugin (the release of this plugin on GitHub is the entire uncompiled source code...)
Install this plugin to an already working global prettier installed in vscode from the VSCode marketplace

WITHOUT using npm or yarn?

Steps to Reproduce

OK, again, I did not install Node.JS or NPM. I installed the portable .zip version of VScode 1.49.0 (https://code.visualstudio.com/download). Then, in the marketplace, (on the VSCode Left Sidebar) I looked for Prettier and hit install. Easy Peasy.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=esbenp.prettier-vscode

Prettier is even tagged "PHP" on the page. But the instructions state I need to do npm install --global @prettier/plugin-php. Ok, but...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51000556/npm-command-not-found-in-visual-studio-code

So then I installed NPM from Microsoft - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=eg2.vscode-npm-script thinking I can just Command Palette >npm install --global @prettier/plugin-php but no.. that's not a valid command. I tried https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=fknop.vscode-npm as well, no joy. I'm guessing these allow you run npm commands (like update dependency) on a NodeJS project etc that you are working on - IF you have NodeJS already installed?

I also tried downloading the unpkg version - https://unpkg.com/@prettier/plugin-php/standalone.js - and putting it in the node_modules folder of the prettier plugin.. Even edited the package.json to try to get it to be recognised.. I also made sure that "prettier.withNodeModules": true, in the VSCode Settings. etc etc.

But no matter what I tried, it works with other files, but not PHP.

["INFO" - 3:53:55 pm] Extension Name: esbenp.prettier-vscode.
["INFO" - 3:53:55 pm] Extension Version: 5.6.0.
["INFO" - 3:53:55 pm] Enabling prettier for languages: ansible, css, graphql, home-assistant, html, javascript, javascriptreact, json, json5, jsonc, less, markdown, mdx, mongo, postcss, scss, typescript, typescriptreact, vue, yaml
["INFO" - 3:53:55 pm] Enabling prettier for file extensions: .JSON-tmLanguage, ._js, .avsc, .bones, .cjs, .component.html, .css, .es, .es6, .frag, .geojson, .gltf, .gql, .graphql, .graphqls, .gs, .har, .htm, .html, .html.hl, .ice, .inc, .jake, .js, .js.flow, .jsb, .jscad, .jsfl, .jsm, .json, .json5, .jsonc, .jsonl, .jss, .jsx, .less, .markdown, .mcmeta, .md, .mdown, .mdwn, .mdx, .mir, .mjml, .mjs, .mkd, .mkdn, .mkdown, .njs, .pac, .pcss, .postcss, .reek, .ronn, .rviz, .scss, .sjs, .ssjs, .st, .sublime-build, .sublime-commands, .sublime-completions, .sublime-keymap, .sublime-macro, .sublime-menu, .sublime-mousemap, .sublime-project, .sublime-settings, .sublime-syntax, .sublime-theme, .sublime-workspace, .sublime_metrics, .sublime_session, .syntax, .tfstate, .tfstate.backup, .topojson, .ts, .tsx, .vue, .webapp, .webmanifest, .workbook, .xht, .xhtml, .xsjs, .xsjslib, .yaml, .yaml-tmlanguage, .yaml.sed, .yml, .yml.mysql, .yy, .yyp
["INFO" - 3:53:55 pm] Enabling prettier for range supported languages: graphql, javascript, javascriptreact, json, typescript, typescriptreact

This problem must be a common one because there is even an unofficial fork of Prettier that includes the PHP plugin with more than 10,000 installs.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Karye.prettier-php

But it is unofficial, older and less frequently updated.

Problem Description

I'm not asking to stop using npm or yarn. I am on your side when people say "Must use Composer what??" ..

And yes, VSCode is itself a Javascript application. And Prettier is a Javascript plugin. But I am not looking to develop VSCode or Prettier, I am just a user (although I am technically trained). I don't need to install NodeJS to use/run VSCode, Prettier, Atom, WhatsApp Desktop, etc, nor do I need to install Visual Studio 2019 to play Fortnite.

WordPress User: Needs PHP
WordPress Developer: Needs and Knows PHP
Prettier User: Needs VSCode (which needs Windows, MacOS or Linux)
Prettier Developer: Needs and Knows NodeJS

I need to install NodeJS Javascript development environment to download and install a plugin (Plugin-PHP) to an extension (Prettier) for an editor (VSCode) which I use to edit a PHP Project... This just sounds so... Hope you catch my drift.

Pull Request

Maybe documentation somewhere needs to be stated on the VSCode marketplace that you must install NodeJS to install any of the plugins, or remove the PHP tag from the Prettier listing on VS Marketplace, or (what I really want) some instruction how to add these plugins. Is it possible for the developers to create "add-on" plugins in the VS Marketplace that I can just install and it would give me this plugin?

Even if I did install Node.JS, do I have to go to the Prettier plugin folder in the user-data folder and run the npm command? Or else how does npm know where --global is? And can I uninistall NodeJS after? Sorry for out-of-scope NodeJS questions because.. I don't use NodeJS! \^_^/ Sigh...

Please Help _|-|o ?

Yes, I am willing to edit config files by hand. I am willing to assume responsibility of manually updating it, etc etc. I didn't need npm or yarn to get to this point with either VSCode or Prettier. I just want to use a plugin that Prettier has. Can I grab the unpkg version and modify something somewhere?

And you know, this is a really good piece of software. The developers did a great job. It's a useful tool that I can use every day. Can I not use it? Of course. I've not used it for many, many, many years. (PHP is more than a decade older than NodeJS, and I still remember when Zend was first released, LOL). But Prettier and Prettier-PHP is a useful and good software, and I want to use it. I really have tried to figure it out on my own, but I haven't been able to. So I hope someone can help.

._.

ntotten commented 4 years ago

It seems like you are doing a lot of extra work just to avoid installing nodejs. Why download packages and edit config files manually? This isn't something we're going to support. Node is ubiquitous even in the PHP community (Laravel mix requires it for example).

starfishpatkhoo commented 4 years ago

You know, after I posted that, before you closed this issue "wontfix", I already tried to see what I could do and installed NodeJS.

I guessed I should do this npm thing where Prettier is, so I opened a terminal and CD to the folder where Prettier was. And I did npm install --global prettier @prettier/plugin-php which is how I'm supposed to install the plugin.

L:\ToConsider.Apps\VSCode 1.49\data\extensions\esbenp.prettier-vscode-5.6.0 » npm install --global prettier @prettier/plugin-php

Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Could not obtain console screen buffer
   at ColorTool.ConsoleTargets.CurrentConsoleTarget.ApplyColorScheme(ColorScheme colorScheme, Boolean quietMode)
   at ColorTool.Program.Main(String[] args)
L:\ToConsider.Apps\node-v12.18.4-win-x64\prettier -> L:\ToConsider.Apps\node-v12.18.4-win-x64\node_modules\prettier\bin-prettier.js
+ prettier@2.1.2
+ @prettier/plugin-php@0.14.3
added 8 packages from 8 contributors in 3.788s

L:\ToConsider.Apps\VSCode 1.49\data\extensions\esbenp.prettier-vscode-5.6.0 »

No errors, looks pretty good. So I fire up VSCode and I check Prettier's logs, but it still says no PHP.

["INFO" - 3:53:55 pm] Extension Name: esbenp.prettier-vscode.
["INFO" - 3:53:55 pm] Extension Version: 5.6.0.
["INFO" - 3:53:55 pm] Enabling prettier for languages: ansible, css, graphql, home-assistant, html, javascript, javascriptreact, json, json5, jsonc, less, markdown, mdx, mongo, postcss, scss, typescript, typescriptreact, vue, yaml
["INFO" - 3:53:55 pm] Enabling prettier for file extensions: .JSON-tmLanguage, ._js, .avsc, .bones, .cjs, .component.html, .css, .es, .es6, .frag, .geojson, .gltf, .gql, .graphql, .graphqls, .gs, .har, .htm, .html, .html.hl, .ice, .inc, .jake, .js, .js.flow, .jsb, .jscad, .jsfl, .jsm, .json, .json5, .jsonc, .jsonl, .jss, .jsx, .less, .markdown, .mcmeta, .md, .mdown, .mdwn, .mdx, .mir, .mjml, .mjs, .mkd, .mkdn, .mkdown, .njs, .pac, .pcss, .postcss, .reek, .ronn, .rviz, .scss, .sjs, .ssjs, .st, .sublime-build, .sublime-commands, .sublime-completions, .sublime-keymap, .sublime-macro, .sublime-menu, .sublime-mousemap, .sublime-project, .sublime-settings, .sublime-syntax, .sublime-theme, .sublime-workspace, .sublime_metrics, .sublime_session, .syntax, .tfstate, .tfstate.backup, .topojson, .ts, .tsx, .vue, .webapp, .webmanifest, .workbook, .xht, .xhtml, .xsjs, .xsjslib, .yaml, .yaml-tmlanguage, .yaml.sed, .yml, .yml.mysql, .yy, .yyp
["INFO" - 3:53:55 pm] Enabling prettier for range supported languages: graphql, javascript, javascriptreact, json, typescript, typescriptreact

After installing and re-installing everything and trying different locations etc, I finally realised that line L:\ToConsider.Apps\node-v12.18.4-win-x64\prettier -> L:\ToConsider.Apps\node-v12.18.4-win-x64\node_modules\prettier\bin-prettier.js and that VSCode did not know where Prettier-PHP was. So then I tried copying the files over, editing package.json (because I read somewhere that said that I needed to register the plugin with package.json for it to be recognised) and ..

And finally, I think it was by accident, I didn't type the command properly, and entered in npm install @prettier/plugin-php without the --global and the first prettier .. Or something like that.

L:\ToConsider.Apps\VSCode 1.49\data\extensions\esbenp.prettier-vscode-5.6.0 » npm install prettier @prettier/plugin-php

Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Could not obtain console screen buffer
   at ColorTool.ConsoleTargets.CurrentConsoleTarget.ApplyColorScheme(ColorScheme colorScheme, Boolean quietMode)
   at ColorTool.Program.Main(String[] args)
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
+ prettier@2.1.2
+ @prettier/plugin-php@0.14.3
added 7 packages from 7 contributors, updated 1 package and audited 8 packages in 2.404s

1 package is looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 0 vulnerabilities

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And my first reaction was ... Wha...

But I took it on faith and fired up VSCode again.

["INFO" - 3:55:00 pm] Extension Name: esbenp.prettier-vscode.
["INFO" - 3:55:00 pm] Extension Version: 5.6.0.
["INFO" - 3:55:00 pm] Enabling prettier for languages: ansible, css, graphql, home-assistant, html, javascript, javascriptreact, json, json5, jsonc, less, markdown, mdx, mongo, php, postcss, scss, typescript, typescriptreact, vue, yaml
["INFO" - 3:55:00 pm] Enabling prettier for file extensions: .JSON-tmLanguage, ._js, .avsc, .aw, .bones, .cjs, .component.html, .css, .ctp, .es, .es6, .fcgi, .frag, .geojson, .gltf, .gql, .graphql, .graphqls, .gs, .har, .htm, .html, .html.hl, .ice, .inc, .jake, .js, .js.flow, .jsb, .jscad, .jsfl, .jsm, .json, .json5, .jsonc, .jsonl, .jss, .jsx, .less, .markdown, .mcmeta, .md, .mdown, .mdwn, .mdx, .mir, .mjml, .mjs, .mkd, .mkdn, .mkdown, .njs, .pac, .pcss, .php, .php3, .php4, .php5, .phps, .phpt, .phtml, .postcss, .reek, .ronn, .rviz, .scss, .sjs, .ssjs, .st, .sublime-build, .sublime-commands, .sublime-completions, .sublime-keymap, .sublime-macro, .sublime-menu, .sublime-mousemap, .sublime-project, .sublime-settings, .sublime-syntax, .sublime-theme, .sublime-workspace, .sublime_metrics, .sublime_session, .syntax, .tfstate, .tfstate.backup, .topojson, .ts, .tsx, .vue, .webapp, .webmanifest, .workbook, .xht, .xhtml, .xsjs, .xsjslib, .yaml, .yaml-tmlanguage, .yaml.sed, .yml, .yml.mysql, .yy, .yyp
["INFO" - 3:55:00 pm] Enabling prettier for range supported languages: graphql, javascript, javascriptreact, json, typescript, typescriptreact

OK finally.

So here are the steps:

Install Prettier from the VSCode Marketplace - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=esbenp.prettier-vscode
Grab a copy of NodeJS from https://nodejs.org/en/download/
Unzip NodeJS somewhere, and you can add it to your path or just call npm by its full path I guess
CD to VSCode data directory %APPDATA%\extensions\esbenp.prettier-vscode-5.6.0
Run npm but do not use --global with npm install @prettier/plugin-php contrary to documentation, or else it goes to wherever you had NodeJS installed, and VSCode won't find it.
Configure Prettier in VSCode's settings, and check the Output in VSCode CTRL-SHIFT-U ..

As you said.. It seems like you are doing a lot of extra work just to avoid installing nodejs .. Well, I did a lot of work trying NodeJS too. If I knew NodeJS well beforehand..?

So, I still say that this case is still either a:

"half-and-half installation" - you CAN install Prettier without NodeJS, but you CANNOT install one of Prettier's plugins without NodeJS.. I need to install a Javascript development environment (NodeJS) to download and install a plugin (Plugin-PHP) to an extension (Prettier) for an editor (VSCode) which I use to edit a PHP Project...
"documentation is lacking for non NodeJS people" - Right now, VSCode Marketplace says "Your favourite language?" and jumps you to GitHub which talks about the available plugins, which assumes everyone who lands there already has is very familiar with NodeJS. This assumption that everyone who uses VSCode (and by extension, Prettier) is coding Javascript, knows NodeJS and has NodeJS installed, is not very fair.

Here's an idea: Is it possible for you guys to create a package add on in VSCode Marketplace for each plugin? Like Prettier-PHP and so on, which you can install after the main installation of Prettier? Maybe VSCode doesn't allow such kinds of things.

Anyway, probably you can wash your hands and say it's of no real concern to you guys. That's your prerogative.

I shall just point out two things here for posterity:

This is a common enough problem that someone cloned Prettier and created an extension in VSCode Marketplace just to add PHP Support - and there are more than 10,000 downloads there - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Karye.prettier-php
Prettier for Sublime Text 3 offers download and install options via Package Control (like VSCode Marketplace), npm + yarn, git or plain old zip-file download - https://packagecontrol.io/packages/JsPrettier

prettier / prettier-vscode

Cannot install Prettier-PHP Plugin to VScode _WITHOUT_ Javascript-based npm or yarn #1565