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Prettier
Opinionated code formatter
As of 29 August 2026, Prettier is free to use. Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. Softwr lists it under Developer Tools. Prettier is made by Prettier Contributors, launched in 2017, available on API.
Overview
What Prettier does
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary.
What people use it for
- Automatically formatting TypeScript files to project style standards
- Enforcing consistent HTML indentation across component files
- Removing style-related comments from pull request reviews
- Formatting GraphQL queries with consistent indentation
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Prettier.
- Inflexible style rules that cannot be customized significantly, forcing teams to accept opinionated defaults
- Developers must format entire files rather than selective line ranges in some contexts
- Limited language support compared to some alternatives, though it covers major languages
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of Prettier
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- PrettiervsYarn
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Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
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Is Prettier free and open source?
Yes, Prettier is completely free and open source, available as an npm package with no licensing costs or subscriptions.
SourceCan Prettier be integrated with ESLint?
Yes, Prettier integrates with ESLint by disabling ESLint formatting rules via eslint-config-prettier, allowing both tools to work together with Prettier handling formatting and ESLint handling code quality.
SourceDoes Prettier support configuration customization?
Prettier is intentionally opinionated with limited configuration options to enforce consistency. You can create a .prettierrc file for basic customization, but Prettier does not support extensive rule customization like ESLint.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Prettier
- Company
- Prettier Contributors
- Based in
- Open Source
- Founders
- James Long
Timeline
Prettier over time
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- Yarn
- Earthly
- Claude Code
- Fig
- Visual Studio Code
- pnpm
- Turborepo
- GitHub Copilot
- Penpot
- Keycloak
- Rust
- Cloud Native Buildpacks
- Cody
- ConfigCat
- Cortex
- Dagger
- Claude Code
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