The Forte Ecosystem
The Blade Prettier Plugin
A fast, opinionated Prettier plugin for Laravel's Blade templating language. Chisel understands Blade, while providing all the things you love about Prettier, such as whitespace sensitivity.
140x faster* opinionated defaults Prettier v3 native works out of the box
Chisel is the next major version of prettier-plugin-blade, rebuilt from the ground up on Forte's parser. The result is dramatically faster formatting, stable output, improved structural awareness and yes, whitespace sensitivity support.
IMPROVED PERFORMANCE
Chisel v3 is a ground-up rewrite, focused on stability, reliability and performance. Chisel v3 performs up to 140x* faster on real-world templates, compared to v2.
Benchmark Results
Measured against real workloads
Overall
100+x faster
BLADE FIRST
Chisel understands Blade and handles custom directives, components, nested directives, orphaned HTML and much more with precision. HTML and Blade is the focus, but Chisel is also safe in other contexts, like Markdown.
What Chisel Handles
Structural formatting
Custom Directives
smarter
Components
nested too
HTML/JS/CSS/PHP
and more
Nested directives and components are indented correctly
Handles deeply nested structures with confidence
Built on Forte's Blade parser
OPINIONATED
Based on years of feedback, Chisel v3 ships with the defaults that resonate, with the flexibility to fine-tune some behaviors.
Formatting Rules
Opinionated by design
Consistent
indentation
Smart
wrapping
Unified
spacing
Intelligent intention-based wrapping
Consistent directive spacing
Sane HTML indentation
* Benchmark methodology
Performance improvements were measured on both Windows and macOS systems, using Filament's table view as a stress test. Performance claims compare prettier-plugin-blade v2 against v3. Windows performance improvements have demonstrated a 212x improvement on complex views, with an overall improvement of 140x. Benchmarks were run with 2 warmup runs and 14 measured runs per plugin per fixture. Fixtures include real-world templates from Laravel and Filament, as well as synthetic stress tests covering interpolations and dense Tailwind attributes. Results may vary depending on template complexity and hardware.
macOS benchmarks done on Apple M1 MacBook Pro running Sequoia 15.5
Windows benchmarks done on AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core running Windows 11.