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I feel like you have to give Go credit for exposing this type of productivity hack. Once you gofmt/goimports on save you will never go back.

Edit: If I had to program in JS I would definitely use this coming from Go.

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gofmt helped drive the demand and popularity for prettier, but people have been trying to build something like it for JS since before Go existed [0].

Prettier has succeeded largely due to a better algorithm, which actually came from the haskell community, via Wadler's paper A Prettier Printer [1] (with an implementation available at [2]).

[0] js-beautify had its first commit in 2007: https://github.com/beautify-web/js-beautify/commit/e1ddc28b2...

[1] https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/prettier/pretti... [PDF]

[2] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/wl-pprint

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