vim and nvim indenting by filetype

One of the issues I had recently when working in a full stack application was having different indentation settings for different files. Having spent most of my time in a Python setting I didn't need anything other than 4 spaces, which I would carry over to the other files like .html or .js.

This became annoying when working in a JS-only application so I decided to hunt down a solution.

Source from Reddit, the question actually had what I needed

Settings changes

Below are my settings for HTML, Django's HTML templating language, and JavaScript.

This will change on-load depending on the buffer's filetype.

" Example Settings"
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.js
        \ set filetype=javascript  |
        \ set shiftwidth=2         |
        \ set tabstop=2

autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.html,*htmldjango
        \ set filetype=html  |
        \ set shiftwidth=2   |
        \ set tabstop=2