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Prettier

Prettier is listed for: code formatter.

Website health 3.4 / 5

Where it stands

3.3 / 5

Signals score

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Based on 1 of 3 signals

  • Website health3.4 / 5 · weight 50%

    Measured from the tool's public website

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Measured signals

3.4 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08

Read automatically from Prettier's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured

  • Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 264 ms.
  • Security2.8 / 51 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security).
  • Privacy4 / 51 third-party tracking service found: Google Analytics.
  • Transparency1 / 5No privacy policy linked; no pricing page linked.

Community feedback

Not enough discussion yet: 11 classified comments from 2 threads. We need at least 12 from 2 threads.

  • Positive

    “I'm very happy using this, coming from prettier with JS/VSCode and looking for a similar dev experience in Java/Intellij - it has an IntelliJ plugin that works well. Last time I looked I couldn't find any good IntelliJ…”

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  • Positive

    “I’ve learned that the benefit of Prettier outweighs its cost in this regard. At first I disliked things about Prettier. For example, indents violate eslint’s “indent” rule with multiline ternary alignment. However, I…”

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  • Critical

    “It's contrary to everything they claimed Prettier was about: for better or worse, we have decided on X so we can all move on to more important issues. I feel like the cost of changing defaults is wildly underestimated…”

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Threads: Prettier 2.0 – Opinionated JavaScript formatter (2020, 90 comments) · Speeding up Prettier locally using the new –cache CLI option (2022, 6 comments)

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