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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.
Pros of Prettier
- Customizable2
- Open Source1
- Atom/VSCode package1
- Follows the Ruby Style Guide by default1
- Runs offline1
- Completely free1