Prettier in Javascript is forcing variable Definition onto next line

I am using typescript, prettier and eslint and I'm trying to define a multiline string variable like so:

const text = 'Some really long interesting text' +       ' some more really really long text' +      ' and some even more really long text';  

However, when I run eslint with the fix option, prettier is forcing my code to look like this.

const text =      'Some really long interesting text' +      ' some more really long interesting text' +      ' and some even more really long text';  

I would prefer the + operators to be before the text but I understand that prettier won't let me do that due to it's opinion. Fine. But I don't understand the variable definition starting on the next line. I've never seen the variable definition start on the next line before.

Can anyone help me answer either of these questions:

1. Where this came from? I've never seen this standard before and how did Prettier decide to adopt it? The documentation about this is rather bleak.
2. Is there anyway I can override it?

Here's my .eslintrc.js:

module.exports = {      parser: '@typescript-eslint/parser',      parserOptions: {          ecmaVersion: 2020, // Allows for the parsing of modern ECMAScript features          sourceType: 'module', // Allows for the use of imports      },      plugins: ['@typescript-eslint'],      extends: [          'plugin:@typescript-eslint/recommended', // Uses the recommended rules from the @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin          'plugin:prettier/recommended',          'prettier/@typescript-eslint',      ],      rules: {          // Place to specify ESLint rules. Can be used to overwrite rules specified from the extended configs          // e.g. "@typescript-eslint/explicit-function-return-type": "off",          '@typescript-eslint/ban-ts-comment': 'off'      },  };  

And here is my .prettierrc.js:

module.exports = {      semi: true,      trailingComma: "es5",      singleQuote: true,      printWidth: 120,      tabWidth: 4  };  

Thank you!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65606120/prettier-in-javascript-is-forcing-variable-definition-onto-next-line January 07, 2021 at 11:06AM