Why use prettier if ESLint can format?

• eslint-plugin-prettier

  14 3,178 7.6 JavaScript

  ESLint plugin for Prettier formatting

  

Another approach that you can also take is a sort of "prettier as an ESLint plugin" option, such with eslint-plugin-prettier. The idea is that the developer only needs to run one tool (ESLint), but you add a plugin to ESLint that just calls prettier and converts the prettier error messages to ESLint error messages. I've worked at companies that have used this approach, and it makes setting up your editor/IDE very simple, because you've only got one tool to configure. That said, I personally don't like it because it forces you to use ESLint's "auto fix" functionality, which I find works well for formatting, but IME less well for some of the other lints.

• typescript-eslint

  123 14,612 9.9 TypeScript

  :sparkles: Monorepo for all the tooling which enables ESLint to support TypeScript

  

This would be fine, but ESLint devs couldn't fix certain issues with some of their formatting rules https://github.com/typescript-eslint/typescript-eslint/issues/1824 Maintaining a formatter and linter in one tool is more difficult.

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• tools

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Not sure if you're being serious, but there are definitely people working on tools to replace ESlint/Prettier, but it will be a long time until those have any sort of meaningful adoption, if they even succeed at all.

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