prettierd ☆

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Description:
Prettier daemon

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 0.26.2@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 24, 2025

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Stars: 962 | Forks: 31 | Language: TypeScript | Category: Developer tools

Tags: prettier formatter daemon typescript javascript developer-tools

Install: brew install prettierd

About:
prettierd is a background daemon that runs Prettier, the popular code formatter, as a persistent service. It eliminates the startup overhead of Node.js and Prettier by keeping the formatter in memory, resulting in significantly faster formatting operations. This is particularly effective for on-the-fly formatting in code editors and pre-commit hooks.

Key Features:

Significantly faster formatting by eliminating Node.js startup time
Persistent background daemon process
Drop-in replacement for the standard prettier CLI
Reduces resource usage for frequent formatting tasks

Use Cases:

Accelerating code formatting in editor integrations (e.g., ALE, coc-prettier)
Speeding up git pre-commit hooks that run Prettier on multiple files
CI/CD pipelines requiring rapid code formatting checks

Alternatives:

Prettier (CLI) – The standard tool; prettierd offers significantly better performance for repeated calls by avoiding process startup costs.
dprint – A modern, extensible code formatter written in Rust that is inherently fast, but uses a different plugin ecosystem than Prettier.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Dec 24, 2025 9:55pm	0.26.2	0	VERSION_BUMP	1e2b78c5
Jan 6, 2025 5:49am		0	VERSION_BUMP	657a34f7