shfmt VS zinit

Compare shfmt vs zinit and see what are their differences.

shfmt

A shell formatter (sh/bash/mksh) (by patrickvane)

zinit

Flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, Turbo, annexes, services, packages. (by zdharma)
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shfmt zinit
2 25
80 2,691
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0.0 6.5
22 days ago over 2 years ago
Go C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License -
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shfmt

Posts with mentions or reviews of shfmt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-21.
  • Bash Defaults Not Working Like Atom?
    1 project | /r/pulsaredit | 21 Feb 2023
    Format-Shell is working, but I had to install shfmt manually: https://github.com/patrickvane/shfmt/releases/tag/master. Only one issue is that they don't offer native MacOSX for Silicon, but maybe that's not an issue
  • similar to shellcheck?
    5 projects | /r/bash | 21 Apr 2022
    There are also: - shfmt - sh - bash language server - bashate

zinit

Posts with mentions or reviews of zinit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-01.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing shfmt and zinit you can also consider the following projects:

ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

zplug - :hibiscus: A next-generation plugin manager for zsh

shellharden - The corrective bash syntax highlighter

zsh-snap - ⚡️ Znap! Fast, easy-to-use tools for Zsh dotfiles & plugins, plus git repos

neoformat - :sparkles: A (Neo)vim plugin for formatting code.

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

ale - Check syntax in Vim/Neovim asynchronously and fix files, with Language Server Protocol (LSP) support

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

vscode-bash-debug - Bash shell debugger extension for VSCode (based on bashdb)

starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

bash-language-server - A language server for Bash

sheldon - :bowtie: Fast, configurable, shell plugin manager