Prettier forces layouts teams want to keep
Prettier's fixed style cannot be tuned to a team's preferred layout for arrays, tabs, long chains, and inline whitespace.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 17 August 2022 · last reported 26 March 2026
What's going wrong
Teams migrating from ESLint or stylelint find that Prettier removes layout choices they have used for years.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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