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Git Hooks

Customizing Git - Git Hooks: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks

Prettier docs show a few options: https://prettier.io/docs/en/precommit.html

Apply a git hook to all repositories

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-corehooksPath

git config --global core.hooksPath ~/githooks

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2293498/applying-a-git-post-commit-hook-to-all-current-and-future-repositories

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1977610/change-default-git-hooks

pre-commit hook

Inspired by https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57591839/how-to-commit-git-hooks and https://prettier.io/docs/en/precommit.html#option-5-shell-script

This setup allows to have the pre-commit hook on version control.

Setup:

mkdir git-hooks
echo "#\!/bin/sh" > git-hooks/pre-commit
# Fill the file git-hooks/pre-commit with some validation code
chmod +x git-hooks/pre-commit
cp git-hooks/pre-commit .git/hooks

Every time we update the pre-commit hook we need to run cp git-hooks/pre-commit .git/hooks.

Example of pre-commit hook that runs Prettier, ESLint and tsc:

#!/bin/sh

# Runs Prettier on ts/tsx/js/jsx/md/yml/yaml/css/json files, and ESLint and tsc on ts/tsx/js/jsx files.
# Prettier and ESLint only check the committed files, whereas tsc checks all project files, since it's not possible to
# run tsc on specific files while obeying the tsconfig.json options (see
# https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/27379 and https://www.npmjs.com/package/tsc-files).
# This hook always commits, even if errors are found. And it does not modify the files (ie it does not do `prettier
# write`), it only checks if there is any issue and reports it.
# Inspired by https://prettier.io/docs/en/precommit.html#option-6-shell-script

# Validate that pre-commit and .git/hooks/pre-commit have the same content.
# If content is not the same, do not commit.
diff pre-commit .git/hooks/pre-commit > /dev/null
if [ $? = 1 ]
then
echo "Error: pre-commit and .git/hooks/pre-commit have different content."
echo "Commit aborted."
echo "To fix this run: cp pre-commit .git/hooks"
exit 1
fi

get_staged_files() {
ALL_FILES=$(git diff --cached --name-only --diff-filter=ACMR | sed 's| |\\ |g' | awk '/\.ts$|\.tsx$|\.js$|\.jsx$|\.md$|\.yml$|\.yaml$|\.css$|\.json$/')
CODE_FILES=$(echo "$ALL_FILES" | awk '/\.ts$|\.tsx$|\.js$|\.jsx$/')
}

print_title() {
printf "\n\n🔍 %s\n\n" "$1"
}

print_result() {
ERROR_CODE=$?
if [ $ERROR_CODE -eq 0 ]; then
printf "\n✅ %s Success\n\n" "$1"
else
printf "\n❌ %s Failure\n\n" "$1"
fi
}

get_staged_files

printf "📁 Files\n\n%s" "$ALL_FILES"
[ -z "$ALL_FILES" ] && exit 0

print_title "Prettier"
echo "$ALL_FILES" | xargs ./node_modules/.bin/prettier --ignore-unknown --check
print_result "Prettier"

[ -z "$CODE_FILES" ] && exit 0

print_title "ESLint"
echo "$CODE_FILES" | xargs ./node_modules/.bin/eslint
print_result "ESLint"

print_title "tsc"
npx tsc --noEmit
print_result "tsc"

exit 0
Old version. Does not format md/css/json files.
#!/bin/sh

# Runs Prettier, ESLint and tsc on .ts, .tsx and .js files (not .md nor .json files). Prettier and ESLint only check the
# committed files, whereas tsc checks all project files, since it's not possible to run tsc on specific files while
# obeying the tsconfig.json options (see https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/27379 and
# https://www.npmjs.com/package/tsc-files).
# This hook always commits, even if errors are found. And it does not modify the files (ie it does not do `prettier
# write`), it only checks if there is any issue and reports it.
# Inspired by https://prettier.io/docs/en/precommit.html#option-6-shell-script

print_result() {
ERROR_CODE=$?
if [ $ERROR_CODE -eq 0 ]; then
printf "\n✅ %s Success\n\n" "$1"
else
printf "\n❌ %s Failure\n\n" "$1"
fi
}

FILES=$(git diff --cached --name-only --diff-filter=ACMR | sed 's| |\\ |g' | awk '/\.ts$|\.tsx$|\.js$/')

printf "📁 Files\n\n%s" "$FILES"

[ -z "$FILES" ] && exit 0

printf "\n\n🔍 Prettier\n\n"
echo "$FILES" | xargs ./node_modules/.bin/prettier --ignore-unknown --check
print_result "Prettier"

printf "\n🔍 ESLint\n"
echo "$FILES" | xargs ./node_modules/.bin/eslint
print_result "ESLint"

printf "\n🔍 tsc\n"
npx tsc --noEmit
print_result "tsc"

exit 0

lint-staged

https://github.com/okonet/lint-staged

.husky/pre-commit is always the same:

#!/bin/sh
. "$(dirname "$0")/_/husky.sh"

npx lint-staged

Then in package.json we specify the commands:

"lint-staged": {
"*.js": "eslint --cache --fix",
"*.{js,css,md}": "prettier --write"
}

We can run multiple commands, one after another, using an array:

"lint-staged": {
"*.{js,ts,tsx}": [
"prettier",
"eslint"
]
}

Husky

https://typicode.github.io/husky/#/

Add scripts at package.json:

"scripts": {
"prettier-check": "prettier --check .",
"eslint-check": "eslint . --ext ts --ext tsx --ext js"
}

Then in .husky/pre-commit we can have:

#!/bin/sh
. "$(dirname "$0")/_/husky.sh"

npm run prettier-check ||
(
echo 'Prettier check failed. Run 'npx prettier --write .', add changes and try to commit again.';
false;
)

echo '✅ Success :) ✅'

source blog, source video

Note that we can also put hooks in package.json:

"scripts": {
"lint": "eslint src/**/*.js",
"lint:fix": "eslint --fix src/**/*.js",
},
"husky": {
"hooks": {
"pre-commit": "npm run lint:fix",
"pre-push": "npm run lint"
}
},