Can we autosort object keys by length when order DOES NOT matter?

[brian-mann]

Given an object looking like this...

When order does not matter

Could we autosort the keys to be grouped into two groups...

1. shorthand properties
2. regular key/value properties

And then subsequently short by the length of the key for both groups?

So it would subsequently restructure the object to look like...

cy
.task('record:fast_visit_spec', {
  url,
  percentiles,
  browser: Cypress.config('browser').name
})

If an object has both the key/value then we'd also ignore the length of the value and only use key.length.

Example:

cy
.task('record:fast_visit_spec', {
  url,
  percentiles,
  foo: 'a really long string that's longer than the following value',
  browser: Cypress.config('browser').name
})

When order matters

If order matters, such as when using the spread operator syntax, then avoid sorting...

Example:

const obj = {
  ...veryLongObject,
  ...shortObj,
  foo, // this does not get sorted above the others...
  quux, // but this gets sorted
  lorem, // and this gets sorted
}

[jennifer-shehane]

I have strong feelings about this. I would prefer alphabetical

cy
.task('record:fast_visit_spec', {
  browser: Cypress.config('browser').name,
  foo: 'a really long string that's longer than the following value',
  percentiles,
  url
})

[kuceb]

and you say prettier is too opinionated?

Lets say I have the following code:

const myfuncs = {
  baz: () => {
	...
	...
	...
	...
	...
	...
  },
  
  foo: () => {
   ...
   ...
   ...
   ...
   ...
   ...
  }
}

and I rename baz to getBaz

the diff would go from 1 line to possibly hundreds