How do I Change VSCode To Indent 4 Spaces Instead Of Default 2?

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Bit of an late answer. But just got the same issue solved…

Multiple things are able to control this. It also has taken me quite a bit of experimentation to get it corrected. For me point 3 below was the final trick to make it work. Before that, I noticed the editor loading with 4, but jumping back to 2 spaces. Now it stays at 4.

Some things to check:

1: VS Code configuration (Settings & Workspace, you can set these for system wide configuration or just for the current Workspace):
Check whether you have set:

"editor.tabSize": 4,
"editor.insertSpaces": true,
"editor.detectIndentation": false

And language specific settings (optional):

"[javascript]": {
    "editor.tabSize": 4
},
"[typescript]": {
    "editor.tabSize": 4
}

2: Are there any Extensions that could influence the indentation -> people have reported JS-CSS-HTML to also configure the setting.

3: Is there a .editorconfig file in your workspace? If so, check the settings over there. Angular creates one for example and configures the indent_size:

# Editor configuration, see http://editorconfig.org
root = true

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charset = utf-8
indent_style = space
indent_size = 4
insert_final_newline = true
trim_trailing_whitespace = true

[*.md]
max_line_length = off
trim_trailing_whitespace = false

Most answers focussed point 1 which, but for me the last step was important to make VS Code work properly.

This Stack Overflow handles all of the above in different answers:
Visual Studio Code: format is not using indent settings

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