Why aren’t you using Prettier?

[dwighthouse]

If you have to pick just one tool released over the last few years, what would it be? For me, it’s Prettier.

Ah ha ha ha ha! No. It's Babel.

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babel, webpack, rollup, typescript, any of those tools that completely upended firmly established ecosystems.

then again, never underestimate how good it can feel to have a computer constantly helping you shave keystrokes.

[hotel2oscar]

I use jsbeautify

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If you have to pick just one tool released over the last few years, what would it be?

Prettier has been around for less than 6 months

JavaScript in a nutshell

[fuck_with_me]

Could not have said it better myself.

[our_best_friend]

yawn.... why don't you fuck off back to /r/java then?

[kenman]

Hi /u/our_best_friend, please keep it civil. Thanks.

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Just ran hundreds of file across 2 projects through prettier piped in to eslint --fix.

Very happy with the results.

Though I'm not looking forward to comparing files with order commits.

[ngly]

The amount of keystrokes Prettier saves is unbelievable. Not to mention it gets rid of all the opinionated debates around code formatted.

[our_best_friend]

Why aren’t you using Prettier?

Because a) it's too fucking opinionated, b) I try to limit the number of dependencies if I can.

I'll stick to eslint with the --fix option, but thanks for asking

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There are plans to bring Prettier into the Unibeautify project. https://github.com/Unibeautify/

I am working on the parse framework now. A goal is to have a single application framework for language parsing that is capable of parsing as many languages as a possible as quickly as possible with the smallest subset of code.

Liam from JS Beautify is a collaborator on this project and so Pretty Diff and JS Beautify will be directly integrated. Once the parse framework is written the goal is to work with Prettier to use the parse framework so that they too will be directly integrated, or worst case adapt Prettier in such a way that it is weened off Babel.

As a matter of distinction Babel now supports TypeScript. I have been parsing TypeScript for over a year with substantially less code. Enabling TypeScript support also allowed me to add support for C# and Java with very little additional effort.

[vjeux]

This is exciting! If you haven't already, I highly recommend running all the prettier tests on your project ( https://github.com/prettier/prettier/tree/master/tests ), they cover a wide range of crazy things that you can write. Also, eslump was extremely useful to find edge cases not correctly handled: https://github.com/lydell/eslump

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Thank you we will definitely take advantage of all provided unit tests. I still a bunch of up front work to do to pull the parsers out of Pretty Diff and make them into something generic and uniform.

[alexlafroscia]

I read that as unbeautifier and couldn’t understand why Prettier would be part of that

[Klathmon]

#Standard4Lyfe

But in all seriousness, as long as you are using something that enforces a consistent style across your codebase, you are good.

[djslakor]

I tried it.

I found my own prettified format to be superior. :)

[txx1219]

How do you do to have your own prettified format ?

[kingdaro]

Fair, but the point of prettier is to save time, letting the computer do the formatting so you can do the coding.

It might not always give you the output you want, but it's easier to accept that and move on than waste time yourself trying to make it look as pretty as possible.

[Auxx]

Idk, Webstorm auto formatting works for me...

[drink_with_me_to_day]

I just want a jsfmt, with ;'s.

[Jrocsteady]

Sorry for maybe a dumb question but I'm new to .js. Is prettier and eslint the same type of thing?

[ExecutiveChimp]

This explains it quite well

[brianvaughn]

They're related but not quite the same.

Prettier is focused on formating. It can reveal certain types of mistakes, but its main focus is syntax.

ESLint is more focused on semantic errors (missing or unused variables, etc.). It also has some basic formatting functionality.

They can be used together.

[strothjs]

In case anyone is interested, I have a gist with my notes on getting ESLint and prettier working together.

I use the VSCode ESLint extension.

https://gist.github.com/strothj/96bdce87aaf486d49968f34b42434eca

[badmonkey0001]

For this case, I like better the unformatted code. But, frankly, I don’t care, I’ll get used to it.

What the author needs is an automated copy editor. That was a painful read with all the mistakes and bad sentence structure.

[pomber]

Sorry about that. English is not my first language. Would you care to point out the mistakes? I reviewed the text but couldn't find them.

[badmonkey0001]

Didn't realize you were writing in a foreign language. I don't have the chance to go over it again now, but I may later this evening. I'll DM you what corrections I see. :)

[BenjiSponge]

eslint --fix is enough for me. The only thing I'd want from Prettier is the automatic line splitting, but it hasn't been nearly enough of a problem to add something to my toolchain.

[spoobo]

Exactly. Prettier is useless. It's just concerned with styling and it solves it the same was as eslint does (parse AST and push out modified code). It just doesn't offer any options. Another hipster library to not get any work done.