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Prettier vs Psalm: What are the differences?

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; Psalm: Open-source static analysis tool for PHP (By Vimeo). It is a type-checking static analysis tool for PHP that finds bugs humans can miss, and improves code quality. It is designed to be useful on both large legacy codebases and small, modern ones. It can help you prevent the vast majority of type-related runtime errors, and also enables you to take advantage of safe coding patterns popular in other languages.

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

Prettier and Psalm are both open source tools. Prettier with 37K GitHub stars and 2.39K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Psalm with 3.16K GitHub stars and 264 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Prettier
Pros of Psalm
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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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    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.

    What is Psalm?

    It is a type-checking static analysis tool for PHP that finds bugs humans can miss, and improves code quality. It is designed to be useful on both large legacy codebases and small, modern ones. It can help you prevent the vast majority of type-related runtime errors, and also enables you to take advantage of safe coding patterns popular in other languages.

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    What are some alternatives to Prettier and Psalm?
    EditorConfig
    It is a file format and collection of text editor plugins. It helps maintain consistent coding styles for multiple developers working on the same project across various editors and IDEs.
    ESLint
    A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.
    TSLint
    An extensible static analysis tool that checks TypeScript code for readability, maintainability, and functionality errors. It is widely supported across modern editors & build systems and can be customized with your own lint rules, configurations, and formatters.
    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.
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