Had to globally install prettier before it worked

[aziznal]

Hello. I installed this plugin and and setup its config like in the readme. I then spent a bunch of time trying to get it to work with no use. I checked my config again and again and again.

In the end, what worked out for me was to install prettier using npm install -g prettier. Was this something obvious that I just missed or should it be added to the plugin docs perhaps? Am I missing something else that caused me to do this?

Thanks for the awesome plugin by the way 🚀

[MunifTanjim]

prettier needs to be available in one of these places:

• In ./node_modules/.bin folder, i.e. you've locally installed prettier for your project
• Anywhere in the PATH env variable.
  • That means, either you've installed prettier globally
  • Or installed it using something like mason.nvim, that modifies the PATH env variable for Neovim.

This plugin does not install prettier. It only uses the already available prettier on your system/project.

[MunifTanjim]

Also, prettier would be pretty slow. It's recommended to use prettierd: https://github.com/fsouza/prettierd

[aziznal]

Gotcha. I come from the land of vs code where everything is sort of taken care of in the background which caused me some confusion. Appreciate your help!

[Devansh-Baghel]

@MunifTanjim I had the same problem and it got fixed after looking through this issue, it would be really helpful for newcomers if you could pin this issue and/or mention it in the readme.

[MunifTanjim]

• feat: warn when executable not found #28

Added in README.md. Also added warning message if prettier is not found during plugin setup.