diff --git a/.gitpod.yml b/.gitpod.yml
index 678833cef..5dc45f0e9 100644
--- a/.gitpod.yml
+++ b/.gitpod.yml
@@ -33,4 +33,10 @@ vscode:
     - eamodio.gitlens
     - gruntfuggly.todo-tree
     - redhat.vscode-yaml
-    - bungcip.better-toml
+    - ms-python.black-formatter
+    - ms-python.isort
+    - janisdd.vscode-edit-csv
+    - tamasfe.even-better-toml
+    - ms-python.flake8
+    - donjayamanne.githistory
+    - ms-python.debugpy
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 0572b595e..d891b018c 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,19 +1,25 @@
 repos:
-  - repo: https://github.com/google/yapf
-    rev: "v0.40.2" # Use the sha / tag you want to point at
+  - repo: https://github.com/psf/black
+    rev: "24.4.2" # Use the sha / tag you want to point at
     hooks:
-      - id: yapf
-        language: python
-        entry: yapf
-        args: [-i, -vv]
-        types: [python]
-        additional_dependencies: ['toml']
-  # -   repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
-  #     rev: 6.1.0  # pick the desired flake8 version
-  #     hooks:
-  #     -   id: flake8
+      - id: black
+
+  # - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort
+  #   rev: 5.13.2
+  #   hooks:
+  #     - id: isort
+
+  - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
+    rev: 7.1.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: flake8
+        additional_dependencies:
+          - flake8-bugbear
+          - flake8-docstrings
+        # exclude: ^src/blib2to3/
+
   - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v4.5.0
+    rev: v4.6.0
     # docs https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html
     hooks:
       - id: trailing-whitespace
@@ -23,10 +29,10 @@ repos:
       - id: check-yaml
       - id: debug-statements
       - id: check-merge-conflict
-      - id: double-quote-string-fixer
       - id: end-of-file-fixer
       - id: detect-private-key
       - id: check-toml
+
   - repo: meta
     hooks:
       - id: check-hooks-apply
diff --git a/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml b/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml
index 5dde15ceb..e69de29bb 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-
-# File configures YAPF to be used as a git hook with https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit
-
-- id: yapf
-  name: yapf
-  description: "A formatter for Python files."
-  entry: yapf
-  args: [-i, -vv] #inplace
-  language: python
-  types: [python]
diff --git a/Pipfile b/Pipfile
index 34a213c13..7c1be716f 100644
--- a/Pipfile
+++ b/Pipfile
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ pytest-cov = "*"
 coverage = "*"
 pytest = "*"
 coveralls = "*"
-yapf = "*"
 pre-commit = "*"
 mkdocs = "*"
 mkdocs-material = "*"
@@ -56,6 +55,7 @@ pytest-asyncio = "*"
 google-apps-meet = "*"
 google-auth-httplib2 = "*"
 google-auth-oauthlib = "*"
+black = "*"
 
 [packages]
 django = "*"
diff --git a/scripts/hooks/postinstall/install_vscode_formatter.py b/scripts/hooks/postinstall/install_vscode_formatter.py
index 5f7b3929f..8c8a0c1d7 100644
--- a/scripts/hooks/postinstall/install_vscode_formatter.py
+++ b/scripts/hooks/postinstall/install_vscode_formatter.py
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 #!/bin/env python
 
-import os
 import json
+import os
 from pathlib import Path
 
 api_path = os.getcwd()
 
-vscode_folder_path = Path(f'{api_path}/.vscode').resolve()
-vscode_setting_path = Path(f'{api_path}/.vscode/settings.json').resolve()
+vscode_folder_path = Path(f"{api_path}/.vscode").resolve()
+vscode_setting_path = Path(f"{api_path}/.vscode/settings.json").resolve()
 
 if not os.path.isdir(vscode_folder_path):
     os.mkdir(vscode_folder_path)
@@ -16,17 +16,30 @@
 
 if os.path.isfile(vscode_setting_path):
     # import yaml
-    os.system(f'pipenv run python -m scripts.utils.fix_json {vscode_setting_path}')
+    os.system(f"pipenv run python -m scripts.utils.fix_json {vscode_setting_path}")
 
-    with open(vscode_setting_path, 'r') as vscode_setting_file:
+    with open(vscode_setting_path, "r") as vscode_setting_file:
         vscode_setting_json = json.load(vscode_setting_file)
 
-vscode_setting_json['editor.formatOnSave'] = True
-vscode_setting_json['python.formatting.provider'] = 'yapf'
 
-bad_keys = [key for key in vscode_setting_json if key.startswith('//')]
+if "python.formatting.provider" in vscode_setting_json:
+    del vscode_setting_json["python.formatting.provider"]
+
+vscode_setting_json["[python]"] = {}
+vscode_setting_json["[python]"]["editor.formatOnSaveMode"] = "file"
+vscode_setting_json["[python]"]["editor.formatOnSave"] = True
+vscode_setting_json["[python]"]["editor.defaultFormatter"] = "ms-python.black-formatter"
+vscode_setting_json["[python]"]["editor.codeActionsOnSave"] = {}
+vscode_setting_json["[python]"]["editor.codeActionsOnSave"]["source.organizeImports"] = "explicit"
+vscode_setting_json["isort.args"] = [
+    "--profile",
+    "black",
+]
+
+
+bad_keys = [key for key in vscode_setting_json if key.startswith("//")]
 for key in bad_keys:
     del vscode_setting_json[key]
 
-with open(vscode_setting_path, 'w') as vscode_setting_file:
+with open(vscode_setting_path, "w") as vscode_setting_file:
     json.dump(vscode_setting_json, vscode_setting_file, indent=2)
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 7019689c7..08e40e381 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 max-complexity = 20
 select = F,D,C,N,B
 max-line-length = 120
-ignore = F403,D100,D101,D102,D103,D104,D105,D106,D107,D202,N818,S101
+; ignore = F403,D100,D101,D102,D103,D104,D105,D106,D107,D202,N818,S101
+ignore = F403,D,C,N818,S101
 exclude =
     benchmarks/**
     benchmarks/*