June Developer Challenge - CAP Knowledge - Task 19 - CDS source formatter

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There is great support for CAP development in IDEs such as VS Code and IntelliJ. Moreover, because the editor features for CDS are made available in the form of a language server (using the Language Server Protocol or LSP), they can also be used in other IDEs and editors, such as Neovim.

The CDS language server can be installed globally with:

npm i -g @sap/cds-lsp

Why would you do this? Well, for one thing, this gives us a very useful command line tool that can be used to format CDS source.

What is that command line tool called (the name of the command itself)?

This is a question from the June Developer Challenge on CAP Knowledge. And don't forget: always submit your answer as a hash, on its own - read the Taking part section of the intro post for more info. At the end of today, this question will be updated with links to further reading on this topic.

Further info:

• The Editors and IDEs topic in Capire has lots of information including a section on the CDS source formatter.
• The blog post CDS source formatting and readability covers the CDS source formatter tool.