Prettier Sync
Synchronous version of Prettier for code formatting without async overhead.
Linting and formatting npm MIT
How Prettier Sync is used
Prettier Sync joined the catalog on its public numbers (263,530 downloads a week on npm and 36 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 7 public GitHub projects of our scan, 2 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Prettier (1,308 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Prettier (100.0%), Vite (100.0%), Playwright (JavaScript) (85.7%).
Prettier Sync popularity over time
Gid Score 30: downloads 52, use in agent projects 12, GitHub stars 0, downloads trend 56 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Prettier Sync
| Prettier | 100.0% of Prettier Sync projects · 4.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| Vite | 100.0% of Prettier Sync projects · 5.1× more than average |
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 85.7% of Prettier Sync projects · 5.0× more than average |
| stylelint | 85.7% of Prettier Sync projects · 51.2× more than average |
| Vitest | 85.7% of Prettier Sync projects · 4.2× more than average |
| Anthropic SDK | 71.4% of Prettier Sync projects · 19.1× more than average |
| AWS SDK for JavaScript (S3) | 71.4% of Prettier Sync projects · 22.6× more than average |
| @cfworker/json-schema | 71.4% of Prettier Sync projects · 1108.6× more than average |
How Prettier Sync is funded
Open Collective: Prettier
| Received, last 12 months | $48,066 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $58,056 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $75,460 |
| Raised since the start | $279,442 · $203,973 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $3,460 · $2,959 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -34% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 62 |
Top company backers all time, 93 companies in total
| JetBrains | $17,000 since Dec 2023 |
|---|---|
| Cybozu | $16,136 since Dec 2022 |
| THANKS.DEV | $15,377 since Nov 2022 |
| Frontend Masters | $11,667 since May 2019 |
| CarGurus | $5,000 since Jul 2022 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in May 2019. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 3 more tools in our catalog: Prettier, Prettier XML plugin, stylelint-prettier.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @prettier | 43 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay.
Ways to fund Prettier Sync
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective thanks.dev Tidelift Own page
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub and in the npm package. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @prettier/sync |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (5), TypeScript / JavaScript (2) |
| Example projects | lobehub/lobehub, primer/react, vual/lobe-chat-pro |
Alternatives to Prettier Sync
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Prettier Sync are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prettier npm Opinionated code formatter for JavaScript, TypeScript, and related languages. |
88 | 1,308 (27.1%) | 81.6M | 52.4K | MIT |
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