prek
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Feb 3, 2026first mention
Jul 16, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“pre-commit, and prek by extension, have a process to stash the unstaged changes”
“The prek documentation has a list of many large projects”
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“So in CI/CD you can replace all discrete lint/format tool calls with one to pre-commit/prek”
Caveats and dissent
“Would need auto-fix & commit capabilities to really replace lefthook or lint-staged for me.”
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Threads where it came up
Also written as Prek. Data: prek.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“I filed this PR against prek”
“An alternative to it is "prek", written in Rust.”
“Would need auto-fix & commit capabilities to really replace lefthook or lint-staged for me.”
“prek is the default used for devenv's git-hooks since November 2025”
“How does prek handle pre-push hooks?”
“pre-commit, and prek by extension, have a process to stash the unstaged changes”
“There's a config option for that :)”
“The prek documentation has a list of many large projects”
“So in CI/CD you can replace all discrete lint/format tool calls with one to pre-commit/prek”
“Is prek much better?”