Prettier not working

[Dronakurl]

I am struggling to get prettier to work with anything. I don't know what is wrong.
Can anyone please help?

Here is what I tried:

• I can verify that prettier works in the command line in the same shell.
• I verified that the command in the formatter option is run when I trigger a format, by replacing it by a touchcommand and checking that a a file was created
• I started with a fresh (no config) helix instance and triggered ":format"
• I checked "--checkhealth" with resulted in green checks for prettier.
• in the formatter option Not calling prettier directly but with 'bash -c'

helix 24.7 (91e642c)

[[language]]
name = "yaml"
file-types = ["yaml", "yml"]
auto-format = true
formatter = { command = "prettier", args = ["--parser", "yaml"] }

[[language]]
name = "html"
file-types = ["html", "xml"]
auto-format = true
formatter = { command = "prettier" }

[Dronakurl]

I've got it to work with this

[[language]]
name = "html"
file-types = ["html", "xml"]
auto-format = true
formatter = { command = "bash", args = [
  "-c",
  "prettier --stdin-filepath xx.html ",
] }

For yaml this worked

[[language]]
name = "yaml"
file-types = ["yaml", "yml"]
auto-format = true
formatter = { command = "bash", args = ["-c", " prettier --parser yaml "] }

[[language]]
name = "docker-compose"
file-types = ["docker-compose"]
auto-format = true
formatter = { command = "bash", args = ["-c", " prettier --parser yaml "] }

Adding the file-type docker-compose to file-types of yaml did not work. You have to specify it in the docker-compose language.

[Dronakurl]

I would highly appreciate if someone could explain why this only works with this bash workaround

[David-Else]

Maybe your default shell and bash are different and have different environment variables? Try:

bash -c 'which prettier'

which prettier

[roignpar]

I also ran into this issue and the bash solution didn't work for me.
In my case it looks like Helix couldn't find prettier with command = "prettier".
The solution was to use the full path: command = "/absolute/path/to/bin/prettier".

[roignpar]

This seems to be somehow related to prettier being installed with npm install -g prettier.
Installing it with the OS package manager fixed the issue and command = "prettier" works.