Prettier
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
0warn against
Apr 9, 2026first mention
Oct 20, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I use Prettier in other projects and it's also great in those projects”
“Occasionally I use prettier to remove indentation - the LLM makes a lot less edit errors that way.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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All comments 4
I was talking about a function with 100 lines and no line breaks. Very difficult to read. I use black/ruff on a lot of projects and it will only touch standard-y things like docstring spacing, or spacing between methods and classes, import sorting etc. It doesn’t touch intentional/aesthetic user spacing. With agents it is helpful to make them run ruff and mypy to keep them honest, but as long as the code adheres to t
“Prettier collapses multiple blank lines into a single blank line.”
“I use Prettier in other projects and it's also great in those projects”
“Occasionally I use prettier to remove indentation - the LLM makes a lot less edit errors that way.”