Best Alternatives to prettier

Q: What are the best alternatives to prettier?

The best alternatives to prettier are: @biomejs/biome, dprint. Prettier is slow on large projects and requires Node.js. Rust-based alternatives are significantly faster and Biome can replace both Prettier and ESLint.

An opinionated code formatter

Why look for an alternative?

Prettier is slow on large projects and requires Node.js. Rust-based alternatives are significantly faster and Biome can replace both Prettier and ESLint.

Current

prettier

v3.8.1 · MIT

Prettier is an opinionated code formatter

Weekly Downloads

80.0M

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@biomejs/biome

v2.4.6 · MIT OR Apache-2.0

Replaces both Prettier and ESLint — 100x faster, single config file

Weekly Downloads

6.4M

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TypeScriptActively maintainedZero deps

dprint

v0.52.0 · MIT

Rust-based formatter — faster than Prettier with plugin support

Weekly Downloads

156K

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TypeScriptActively maintained

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