test-repo/docs/comparison.md

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title: Prettier vs. Linters
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## How does it compare to ESLint/TSLint/stylelint, etc.?

Linters have two categories of rules:

**Formatting rules**: eg: [max-len](https://eslint.org/docs/rules/max-len), [no-mixed-spaces-and-tabs](https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-mixed-spaces-and-tabs), [keyword-spacing](https://eslint.org/docs/rules/keyword-spacing), [comma-style](https://eslint.org/docs/rules/comma-style)…

Prettier alleviates the need for this whole category of rules! Prettier is going to reprint the entire program from scratch in a consistent way, so it’s not possible for the programmer to make a mistake there anymore :)

Prettier is not a rule-based tool: it has no individual formatting rules that you can enable or disable. It reprints your whole program from scratch instead.

**Code-quality rules**: eg [no-unused-vars](https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-unused-vars), [no-extra-bind](https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-extra-bind), [no-implicit-globals](https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-implicit-globals), [prefer-promise-reject-errors](https://eslint.org/docs/rules/prefer-promise-reject-errors)…

Prettier does nothing to help with those kind of rules. They are also the most important ones provided by linters as they are likely to catch real bugs with your code!

In other words, use **Prettier for formatting** and **linters for catching bugs!**