prettier
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. (by prettier)
| babel-parser | prettier | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 506 | |
| 37,972 | 51,901 | |
| - | 0.1% | |
| - | 9.9 | |
| - | 2 days ago | |
| JavaScript | ||
| - | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
babel-parser
Posts with mentions or reviews of babel-parser.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning babel-parser yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
prettier
Posts with mentions or reviews of prettier.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-05-09.
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How to Build a Dependency Map of a Legacy Codebase Using AI Tools
137Foundry provides legacy modernization services that include dependency mapping as a foundational assessment phase. Prettier and ESLint are useful companion tools for enforcing code style consistency as the refactoring proceeds. Node.js and Python.org official documentation are authoritative references for understanding the import and module systems of those runtimes.
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How to Prepare a Legacy Codebase for AI-Assisted Refactoring
Prettier and ESLint are useful tools for establishing consistent code style as a baseline before starting structural refactoring - style differences in a diff make behavioral changes harder to spot. OWASP provides useful checklists for security-critical code review that apply directly to the critical path review step.
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Developing new static analyzer: PVS-Studio JavaScript
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How I Automated My Entire Claude Code Workflow with Hooks
The matcher field takes a regex pattern. Edit|Write means this hook only fires when the Edit or Write tool is used. Claude running Bash, Read, or any other tool won't trigger it. The command itself uses jq to extract the file path from the tool input JSON, then pipes it to Prettier. Every file Claude touches gets formatted automatically.
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The Unix Philosophy for Agentic Coding
The better approach: let the agent write code however it wants, then run Prettier, Black, Ruff, or ESLint. Zero ambiguity. The agent doesn't need to think about formatting at all, which means fewer tokens spent and fewer decisions that could go wrong.
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Automated Code Review: Benefits, Tools & Implementation (2026 Guide)
In the JavaScript ecosystem, ESLint and Prettier are the dominant tools for these roles respectively, and both saw significant releases in early 2026. ESLint's v10 completed a multi-year architectural overhaul, added multithreading for large codebases, and expanded beyond JavaScript to cover CSS, HTML, JSON, and Markdown. Prettier's v3.8 introduced a Rust-powered CLI with meaningful speed improvements. Together they cover virtually every file type in a modern web project.
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Coding in Style
I purposefully added multiple new lines at the end of site/hugo.toml to see how editorconfig-checker will autoformat it and found out it does not have autoformatting capabilities (and does not consider multiple new lines as an error 🤦‍♂️). Which is a bummer; I specifically chose this hook in the hope of using it instead of prettier for autoformatting, because recent versions of prettier broke integration with pre-commit2. I think instead of wasting more time on this sidequest I should stop, but I want to add a couple of helper hooks to remediate basic autoformatting issues.
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What Is Static Code Analysis and How Does It Work
Popular Examples: Prettier, Black (for Python), gofmt (for Go).
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Replacing a Plop React component generator with a Claude Code Skill
This, however, is not a new issue. Large organizations always struggled with this and automatic tools were created to reduce the friction of standard and quality enforcement, such as ESlint, Prettier, Git commit hooks, tests, to name a few. One of the tools which helps avoiding misalignment is a generator tool which helps developers scaffold and ramp-up components in a consistent manner, quickly and by given templates. An example for such a tool is Plop, which is a generator that can rely on templates and developer’s input to scaffold code. I actually wrote an article about creating such a tool for scaffolding a React component, along with tests, Storybook story etc.
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Express Setup: Simple & Scalable
When we write code we're prone to mistakes. Even if you're writing code with the help of an AI, we also all write code a little differently. What's clear to one dev might be really hard to read for another. To help mitigate these issues, we can have eslint to look through our code for obvious mistakes and prettier to format our code, making all of our coding styles read similarly even if not exactly the same.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing babel-parser and prettier you can also consider the following projects:
Acorn - A small, fast, JavaScript-based JavaScript parser
ESLint - Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code.
cherow
JS-Beautifier - Beautifier for javascript
mdast - Markdown Abstract Syntax Tree format
black - The uncompromising Python code formatter