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The best Prettier alternatives

6 tools that do a similar job to Prettier, 6 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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Prettier

An opinionated code formatter that rewrites your code in one consistent style.

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    ESLint

    Open source · MIT · ★ 27.6k

    A JavaScript linter that finds and reports problematic code patterns, with rules you can configure.

    Best for: JavaScript developers who want automatic checks on their code; Teams that want consistent rules enforced in a shared configuration

    Full review Prettier vs ESLint
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    PostCSS

    Open source · MIT · ★ 29k

    A tool that transforms CSS stylesheets using JavaScript plugins.

    Best for: Web developers who want to automate CSS fixes such as vendor prefixes; Teams that want to lint or enforce rules on stylesheets

    Full review Prettier vs PostCSS
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    esbuild

    Open source · MIT · ★ 40.1k

    A very fast tool that bundles and minifies JavaScript, TypeScript, and CSS for the web.

    Best for: Developers who want fast builds for JavaScript, TypeScript, or CSS projects; Teams using React or other JSX-based frontends

    Full review Prettier vs esbuild
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    Mitosis

    Open source · MIT · ★ 14.5k

    Write UI components once in a JSX-like syntax and compile them to many frameworks.

    Best for: Teams maintaining the same UI components across more than one framework; Library authors who want to publish components for several frameworks

    Full review Prettier vs Mitosis
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    Madge

    Open source · MIT · ★ 10.2k

    Draws a graph of your JavaScript module dependencies and finds circular ones.

    Best for: JavaScript developers untangling a large codebase with many imports; Teams who want to catch circular dependencies before they cause bugs

    Full review
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    Black

    Open source · MIT · ★ 42.1k

    A Python code formatter that rewrites your files to one consistent style with little configuration.

    Best for: Python developers who want formatting handled automatically; Teams that want every project member's code to look the same

    Full review

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Prettier. We don't take payment for placement.