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by nake89 300 days ago
Using it as a precommit hook in OSS projects makes it so that people can write code however they want. But it ends up in the repo following the guidelines of the repo. Minimizing unnecessary back-and-forth with PRs. Extremely useful in my opinion.

Even though prettier has defaults, but they can be modified to quite some extent to suit your projects needs: https://prettier.io/docs/options
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ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 299 days ago
> Using it as a precommit hook in OSS projects makes it so that people can write code however they want.

That is the point of a formatter, so any formatter would do that (and there were many more active projects to allow formatting before prettier came around).

> quite some extent

Not really, and I have written prettier plugins to get around that constraint.

IMO, its not great, which is kind of how things work out when you try to do everything in one project.

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nake89 299 days ago
> That is the point of a formatter, so any formatter would do that (and there were many more active projects to allow formatting before prettier came around).

No arguments here. You are free to choose the formatter you want.

> Not really, and I have written prettier plugins to get around that constraint.

Or you could simply use those better formatters you were talking about.

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