TF No Trailing Spaces

TF No Trailing Spaces

A simple no trailing spaces highlighter for your Terraform files.

Instalation

Install the extension from the VSCode Marketplace

• VS Code Marketplace

Motivation

If you are not a devops or full-stack, if you are no familiar with Terraform or if you are a simple javascript developer like me. Probably you didn't have a chance to work with a complex Terraform files structure.

In my current project, I had a chance to touch in some crazy TF files responsible to run some jobs and deploy the app through the AzureDevops and there I got a few issues with a wrong identation or trailiing spaces that I'm not able to catch in the development time once I have no correct setup or have no pre-commit hooks to run the terraform fmt for example.

Inspired by the eslint, that I use often as a Javascript developer I miss some Terraform linter that highlight trailing spaces to avoid some issues like below:

resource "null_resource" "name" {       
  triggers = {
    name = var.some 
	# believe there is a space after
	# the `some` word
  }
}