I Built Format-on-Save for Everything That Isn't an Editor
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Editors have had format-on-save for years. The rest of the development environment has not. When a generator, shell command or coding agent writes a file, the bytes usually land exactly as produced. The repository may already have Prettier, Ruff or gofmt , but nothing asks it to run. The mistake is…
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- 2026-08-23 11:15 · DEV Community — AI
I Built Format-on-Save for Everything That Isn't an Editor