Consider replacing prettier with biome for faster formatting about wakaru

[pionxzh]

Thanks. I'm benchmarking and improving the performance recently. This can be a good replacement for prettier. I will test it soon.

Before switching to biome, I will have to refactor the transformation to allow async function.

Update: biome's format function is not async. There is no dependency.👍

[pionxzh]

I just tested oxc, but it's obviously not production ready yet. Will test biome later.

[pionxzh]

I'm also considering using dprint. Highly configurable. It also support adding braces, so that we can retire un-curly-braces.

[0xdevalias]

Benchmarking with hyperfine:

• https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine

  • A command-line benchmarking tool

Running in the checked out directory of this repo (Ref):

⇒ npx prettier --version
3.1.1

⇒ npx biome --version
Version: 1.4.1

⇒ hyperfine --prepare 'git checkout -- unpacked/' 'npx prettier --write unpacked/' 'npx biome format --write unpacked/'
Benchmark 1: npx prettier --write unpacked/
  Time (mean ± σ):     13.243 s ±  0.675 s    [User: 21.156 s, System: 1.210 s]
  Range (min … max):   12.380 s … 14.071 s    10 runs

Benchmark 2: npx biome format --write unpacked/
  Time (mean ± σ):      1.514 s ±  0.135 s    [User: 3.343 s, System: 0.364 s]
  Range (min … max):    1.384 s …  1.775 s    10 runs

Summary
  npx biome format --write unpacked/ ran
    8.75 ± 0.90 times faster than npx prettier --write unpacked/

Config I used:

• https://github.com/0xdevalias/chatgpt-source-watch/blob/main/biome.json

How that changed the formatted output:

• 0xdevalias/chatgpt-source-watch@2505ac0
  • main improvements seemed to be to the indentation of nested ternaries, and some JSX blocks that previously weren't formatted
  • (note that apparently I was previously using an old 2.x version of prettier, so some of the changes shown here may have been improved/lessened if I formatted with a newer version of prettier first)

Based on the speed+formatting improvements, I ended up switching my repo over to using it:

• https://github.com/0xdevalias/chatgpt-source-watch/commits/main/?since=2024-01-02&until=2024-01-02

[0xdevalias]

Hadn't come across that one before; sounds interesting:

• https://github.com/dprint/dprint

  • Pluggable and configurable code formatting platform written in Rust.

• https://dprint.dev/
  • https://dprint.dev/plugins/prettier/

    • This is a process plugin. Using this will cause the CLI to download, run, and communicate with a separate process that is not sandboxed (unlike Wasm plugins).

  • https://dprint.dev/plugins/biome/

Would be interested to see how it performs speed-wise for comparable formatting.