npm vs Prettier
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npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day. | 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. |
| - | An opinionated code formatter;
Supports many languages;
Integrates with most editors;
Has few options;
You press save and code is formatted;
No need to discuss style in code review;
Saves you time and energy |
Statistics | |
GitHub Stars 17.6K | GitHub Stars 51.1K |
GitHub Forks 3.0K | GitHub Forks 4.6K |
Stacks 137.4K | Stacks 13.2K |
Followers 82.2K | Followers 1.3K |
Votes 1.6K | Votes 7 |
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What are some alternatives to npm, Prettier?
RequireJS
RequireJS loads plain JavaScript files as well as more defined modules. It is optimized for in-browser use, including in a Web Worker, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments, like Rhino and Node. It implements the Asynchronous Module API. Using a modular script loader like RequireJS will improve the speed and quality of your code.
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.
Browserify
Browserify lets you require('modules') in the browser by bundling up all of your dependencies.
Codacy
Codacy automates code reviews and monitors code quality on every commit and pull request on more than 40 programming languages reporting back the impact of every commit or PR, issues concerning code style, best practices and security.
Phabricator
Phabricator is a collection of open source web applications that help software companies build better software.
Yarn
Yarn caches every package it downloads so it never needs to again. It also parallelizes operations to maximize resource utilization so install times are faster than ever.
PullReview
PullReview helps Ruby and Rails developers to develop new features cleanly, on-time, and with confidence by automatically reviewing their code.
Gerrit Code Review
Gerrit is a self-hosted pre-commit code review tool. It serves as a Git hosting server with option to comment incoming changes. It is highly configurable and extensible with default guarding policies, webhooks, project access control and more.
SonarQube
SonarQube provides an overview of the overall health of your source code and even more importantly, it highlights issues found on new code. With a Quality Gate set on your project, you will simply fix the Leak and start mechanically improving.
RuboCop
RuboCop is a Ruby static code analyzer. Out of the box it will enforce many of the guidelines outlined in the community Ruby Style Guide.
