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JS Beautifier vs Prettier: What are the differences?
What is JS Beautifier? Beautify, unpack or deobfuscate JavaScript and HTML, make JSON/JSONP readable, etc. This little beautifier will reformat and reindent bookmarklets, ugly JavaScript, unpack scripts packed by Dean Edward’s popular packer, as well as deobfuscate scripts processed by javascriptobfuscator.com.
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.
JS Beautifier and Prettier are primarily classified as "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" and "Code Review" tools respectively.
JS Beautifier and Prettier are both open source tools. Prettier with 32.7K GitHub stars and 1.81K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than JS Beautifier with 6.29K GitHub stars and 1.1K GitHub forks.
Pros of JS Beautifier
Pros of Prettier
- Customizable2
- Open Source1
- Atom/VSCode package1
- Follows the Ruby Style Guide by default1
- Runs offline1
- Completely free1