pre-commit-hooks VS black

Compare pre-commit-hooks vs black and see what are their differences.

pre-commit-hooks

Some out-of-the-box hooks for pre-commit (by pre-commit)

black

The uncompromising Python code formatter [Moved to: https://github.com/psf/black] (by ambv)
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pre-commit-hooks black
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4,852 19,549
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7.2 8.6
3 days ago about 3 years ago
Python Python
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pre-commit-hooks

Posts with mentions or reviews of pre-commit-hooks. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-13.
  • Implementing Quality Checks In Your Git Workflow With Hooks and pre-commit
    6 projects | dev.to | 13 Dec 2023
    # See https://pre-commit.com for more information # See https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html for more hooks repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v3.2.0 hooks: - id: trailing-whitespace - id: end-of-file-fixer - id: check-yaml - id: check-toml - id: check-added-large-files - repo: local hooks: - id: tox lint name: tox-validation entry: pdm run tox -e test,lint language: system files: ^src\/.+py$|pyproject.toml|^tests\/.+py$ types_or: [python, toml] pass_filenames: false - id: tox docs name: tox-docs language: system entry: pdm run tox -e docs types_or: [python, rst, toml] files: ^src\/.+py$|pyproject.toml|^docs\/ pass_filenames: false - repo: https://github.com/pdm-project/pdm rev: 2.10.4 # a PDM release exposing the hook hooks: - id: pdm-lock-check - repo: https://github.com/jumanjihouse/pre-commit-hooks rev: 3.0.0 hooks: - id: markdownlint
  • How to Write Impeccably Clean Code That Will Save Your Sanity
    7 projects | dev.to | 27 Jul 2023
    repos: - repo: https://github.com/ambv/black rev: 23.3.0 hooks: - id: black args: [--config=./pyproject.toml] language_version: python3.11 - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8 rev: 6.0.0 hooks: - id: flake8 args: [--config=./tox.ini] language_version: python3.11 - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort rev: 5.12.0 hooks: - id: isort args: ["--profile", "black", "--filter-files"] language_version: python3.11 - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v4.4.0 hooks: - id: requirements-txt-fixer language_version: python3.11 - id: debug-statements - id: detect-aws-credentials - id: detect-private-key
  • Setting Up Pre-Commit Hooks in GitHub: Ensuring Code Quality and Consistency
    4 projects | dev.to | 11 Jul 2023
    repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: hooks: - id: check-json
  • Level up your development in Git
    3 projects | dev.to | 3 Jun 2023
    $ pre-commit run --all-files [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks. [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/psf/black. [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/psf/black. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... Check Yaml...............................................................Passed Fix End of Files.........................................................Passed Trim Trailing Whitespace.................................................Failed - hook id: trailing-whitespace - exit code: 1 Files were modified by this hook. Additional output: Fixing sample.py black....................................................................Passed
  • What happens when you leak AWS credentials and how AWS minimizes the damage
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2023
    The excellent pre-commit framework (https://pre-commit.com/) has a hook for that in its official hook collection: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks#detect-aws-cr...
  • Improve your Django Code with pre-commit
    13 projects | dev.to | 5 Apr 2023
    exclude: .*migrations\/.* repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks ... - repo: https://github.com/psf/black rev: 22.12.0 hooks: - id: black language_version: python3.9
  • ChatGPT based PR Reviewer and Summarizer (GH Action)
    2 projects | /r/sre | 12 Mar 2023
    This is what we use — https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks/blob/main/pre_commit_hooks/detect_private_key.py
  • How I use pre-commit for Terraform
    1 project | /r/Terraform | 19 Oct 2022
    Personally I do also add "end-of-file-fixer" and "trailing-whitespace" from the "https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks" repo. That cleans up and normalizes some files as well.
  • Gitlab CI with docker compose
    2 projects | dev.to | 6 Aug 2022
    repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v3.3.0 hooks: - id: check-yaml args: ["--allow-multiple-documents"] - repo: local hooks: - id: forbidden-files name: forbidden files entry: found copier update rejection files; review them and remove them language: fail files: "\\.rej$" - id: black name: black entry: poetry run black language: system types: [python] - id: flake8 name: flake8 entry: poetry run flake8 language: system types: [python] - id: isort name: isort entry: poetry run isort --settings-path=. language: system types: [python] - id: pyupgrade name: pyupgrade entry: poetry run pyupgrade language: system types: [python] args: [--py310-plus] - id: mypy name: mypy description: Check python types. entry: poetry run mypy language: system types: [python]
  • Disable a direct push to GitHub main branch
    1 project | dev.to | 3 Aug 2022
    repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v4.1.0 hooks: - id: no-commit-to-branch

black

Posts with mentions or reviews of black. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-27.
  • How to Write Impeccably Clean Code That Will Save Your Sanity
    7 projects | dev.to | 27 Jul 2023
    repos: - repo: https://github.com/ambv/black rev: 23.3.0 hooks: - id: black args: [--config=./pyproject.toml] language_version: python3.11 - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8 rev: 6.0.0 hooks: - id: flake8 args: [--config=./tox.ini] language_version: python3.11 - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort rev: 5.12.0 hooks: - id: isort args: ["--profile", "black", "--filter-files"] language_version: python3.11 - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v4.4.0 hooks: - id: requirements-txt-fixer language_version: python3.11 - id: debug-statements - id: detect-aws-credentials - id: detect-private-key
  • My first Hacktoberfest !!✨
    8 projects | dev.to | 15 Oct 2021
  • Chickity-check yo self before you wreck yo self!
    6 projects | dev.to | 6 Jul 2021
    --- # .pre-commit-config.yaml # ======================== # # pre-commit clean # pre-commit install # pre-commit install-hooks # # precommit hooks installation # # - pre-commit autoupdate # # - pre-commit run black # # continuous integration # ====================== # # - pre-commit run --all-files # repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v4.0.1 hooks: - id: trailing-whitespace - id: end-of-file-fixer - id: debug-statements - id: check-merge-conflict - id: sort-simple-yaml - id: fix-encoding-pragma args: ["--remove"] - id: forbid-new-submodules - id: mixed-line-ending args: ["--fix=lf"] description: Forces to replace line ending by the UNIX 'lf' character. - id: check-added-large-files args: ["--maxkb=500"] - id: no-commit-to-branch args: [--branch, master] - id: check-yaml - id: check-json files: ^tests/app/ - id: pretty-format-json args: ["--no-sort-keys", "--autofix"] files: ^tests/app/ - repo: meta hooks: - id: check-hooks-apply - id: check-useless-excludes - repo: https://github.com/ambv/black rev: 21.5b1 hooks: - id: black language_version: python3.9 - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit rev: 1.7.0 hooks: - id: bandit description: Security oriented static analyser for python code exclude: tests/|scripts/ args: - -s - B101 - repo: https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell rev: v2.1.0 hooks: - id: codespell name: codespell description: Checks for common misspellings in text files. entry: codespell language: python types: [text] - repo: https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade rev: v2.19.4 hooks: - id: pyupgrade
  • Consistent Python code with Black
    5 projects | dev.to | 15 Feb 2021
    One of those configurations choices is... drumroll please... Black configuration! The details of this setup are explained in the Version control integration section of the documentation, but the short version is to add the following to .pre-commit-config.yaml:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pre-commit-hooks and black you can also consider the following projects:

bandit - Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.

pyupgrade - A tool (and pre-commit hook) to automatically upgrade syntax for newer versions of the language.

jupyterlab_code_formatter - A JupyterLab plugin to facilitate invocation of code formatters.

tfsec - Security scanner for your Terraform code [Moved to: https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec]

codespell - check code for common misspellings

pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

tflint - A Pluggable Terraform Linter

terraform-docs - Generate documentation from Terraform modules in various output formats

blue - The slightly less uncompromising Python code formatter.