Support URL in plugins options (#17166)

src/index.d.ts

@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ export interface RequiredOptions extends doc.printer.Options {
   /**
    * Provide ability to support new languages to prettier.
    */
-  plugins: Array<string | Plugin>;
+  plugins: Array<string | URL | Plugin>;
   /**
    * How to handle whitespaces in HTML.
    * @default "css"
@@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ export interface SupportInfo {
 export interface FileInfoOptions {
   ignorePath?: string | URL | (string | URL)[] | undefined;
   withNodeModules?: boolean | undefined;
-  plugins?: Array<string | Plugin> | undefined;
+  plugins?: Array<string | URL | Plugin> | undefined;
   resolveConfig?: boolean | undefined;
 }
 
@@ -816,7 +816,7 @@ export function getFileInfo(
 ): Promise<FileInfoResult>;
 
 export interface SupportInfoOptions {
-  plugins?: Array<string | Plugin> | undefined;
+  plugins?: Array<string | URL | Plugin> | undefined;
   showDeprecated?: boolean | undefined;
 }
 

src/main/plugins/load-plugin.js

@@ -1,8 +1,18 @@
 import path from "node:path";
 import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
+import { isUrl } from "url-or-path";
 import importFromDirectory from "../../utils/import-from-directory.js";
 
+/**
+@param {string | URL} name
+@param {string} cwd
+*/
 async function importPlugin(name, cwd) {
+  if (isUrl(name)) {
+    // @ts-expect-error -- Pass `URL` to `import()` works too
+    return import(name);
+  }
+
   if (path.isAbsolute(name)) {
     return import(pathToFileURL(name).href);
   }
@@ -23,7 +33,7 @@ async function loadPluginWithoutCache(plugin, cwd) {
 
 const cache = new Map();
 function loadPlugin(plugin) {
-  if (typeof plugin !== "string") {
+  if (typeof plugin !== "string" && !(plugin instanceof URL)) {
     return plugin;
   }