How to configure Prettier in workspace-like project?

[gyzerok]

Hello! I am new to helix and am excited to try it out for my daily development.

The only blocker I've found so far is prettier configuration. While simple setup as written in docs works it does not fit in the way my repository is organized. My repo is sort of a monorepo with various subfolders. Each folder has its' own prettier config (because different projects need different plugins installed for it).

Also in practice each subfolder might has its' own prettier version installed, so using one global one won't work.

Is there a way to tell helix to use "local" prettier if installed and to use closest upper prettier config?

[dimas-cyriaco]

I'm working in a monorepo (using Nx) and this setup is working for me:

 [[language]]
name = "typescript"
auto-format = true
formatter = { command = 'npx', args = ["prettier", "--config", ".prettierrc", "--parser", "typescript"] }


[[language]]
name = "tsx"
auto-format = true
formatter = { command = 'npx', args = ["prettier", "--config", ".prettierrc", "--parser", "typescript"] }

[gyzerok]

Can you share a rough tree-view of your monorepo? According to your settings it seems to me that you have a single .prettierrc config at your root.

[dimas-cyriaco]

Yes, I have a single .prettierrc on the root. The project is set up like this:

apps/
    app1/
    app2/
libs/
    lib1/
    lib2
.prettierrc
.eslintrc
nx.json
package.json
workspace.json

[dimas-cyriaco]

But I believe prettier would understand nested .prettierrc files if we had them. I know eslint understands them.

The documentation is not very clear on this. The only thing it says is:

The configuration file will be resolved starting from the location of the file being formatted, and searching up the file tree until a config file is (or isn’t) found.

[gyzerok]

Think you misinterpreted my question. I am interested in the case with multiple .prettierrc specifically. Also pretty sure that Prettier itself does understand nested config, however it's about Helix understanding this configuration, not Prettier.