How to Use IntelliJ Java Code Formatting in VS Code

Hi, I'm Lovefield.

Recently, with my Java workload increasing, I've found myself working with Java in VS Code a lot more. However, since the primary Java extension in VS Code is by Red Hat, I ran into formatting inconsistencies with my collaborators.

At first, I tried to align our formatting using an XML profile, but it didn't match up in the finer details, and I was about to give up. Then, I discovered an incredible extension in the VS Code Marketplace.

It’s none other than "Java and Kotlin by IntelliJ IDEA," published by JetBrains! If you look at the features, it explicitly states that it supports code formatting.

Once installed, open your settings.json and configure it as follows. After applying these settings, run the formatter in VS Code, and you'll see that it applies the exact same formatting as IntelliJ.

{
    "[java]": {
        "editor.defaultFormatter": "JetBrains.intellij-server",
    }
}