See Your AL Code Structure Instantly with AL Indent Prism

See Your AL Code Structure Instantly with AL Indent Prism

posted Originally published at learnbeyondbc.com 1 min read

Sharing something small that helped me during AL code reviews.

While reviewing some AL code before the holiday shutdown, I ran into deeply nested logic that was hard to follow. This is pretty common in Business Central projects, especially as extensions grow.

To make structure easier to see during reviews, I wrote a small VS Code extension called AL Indent Prism.

It adds subtle background colors to each indent level so you can visually follow nesting without changing your code.

  • Works only on AL files
  • Supports light and dark themes
  • Does not modify code or formatting

I wrote a short post explaining why I built it and how it works here:

https://learnbeyondbc.com/blogs/al-indent-prism-code-review

The extension is open source, so feedback, issues, or pull requests are very welcome.

Hopefully this helps other Business Central developers when dealing with deeply nested AL during reviews.

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