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Code Climate vs Prettier: What are the differences?

What is Code Climate? Automated Ruby Code Review. After each Git push, Code Climate analyzes your code for complexity, duplication, and common smells to determine changes in quality and surface technical debt hotspots.

What is Prettier? Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary.

Code Climate and Prettier can be primarily classified as "Code Review" tools.

Prettier is an open source tool with 32.6K GitHub stars and 1.81K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Prettier's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Code Climate has a broader approval, being mentioned in 144 company stacks & 48 developers stacks; compared to Prettier, which is listed in 63 company stacks and 60 developer stacks.

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Pros of Code Climate
Pros of Prettier
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    Auto sync with Github
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    Simple grade system that motivates to keep code clean
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    Better coding
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    Free for open source
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    Hotspots for quick refactoring candidates
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    Continued encouragement to a have better / cleaner code
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    Great UI
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    Makes you a better coder
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    Duplication Detection
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    Safe and Secure
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    Extremely accurate in telling you the errors
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    GitHub only
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    Python inspection
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    Great open community
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    GitHub integration, status inline in PRs
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    Uses rubocop
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    Private
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    Locally Installable API
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    Customizable
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    Open Source
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    Atom/VSCode package
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    Follows the Ruby Style Guide by default
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    Runs offline
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    Completely free

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Cons of Code Climate
Cons of Prettier
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    Learning curve, static analysis comparable to eslint
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    Complains about small stylistic decisions
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    What is Code Climate?

    After each Git push, Code Climate analyzes your code for complexity, duplication, and common smells to determine changes in quality and surface technical debt hotspots.

    What is Prettier?

    Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary.

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