Biome vs Fantomas
Biome
biomejs.devFantomas
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| Figure | Biome | Fantomas |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Code Formatting Tools | 8.2 (#6) | 8.0 (#9) |
| Editor integrations | First-party extensions are available for VS Code, IntelliJ, and Zed. | The maker provides setup guides for JetBrains Rider, Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio. |
| Purpose | Biome is a toolchain for web projects that provides tools to maintain project health. | Fantomas is an opinionated formatter for F# source code that formats files based on configuration. |
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In their own words
Biome
Biome is a toolchain for maintaining the health of web projects. It formats JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, TSX, JSON, HTML, CSS, and GraphQL, and provides lint rules for JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, CSS, and GraphQL. Linting can report diagnostics and apply safe fixes. Its check command can format files, lint them, and organize imports in one run. Biome is distributed as a standalone executable, so it does not require Node.js. Installation instructions cover npm, pnpm, bun, deno, and yarn. First-party editor extensions are available for VS Code, IntelliJ, and Zed; community extensions include Vim, Neovim, and Sublime Text. The getting-started guide links to CI integrations for GitHub Actions and GitLab CI. Biome describes itself as open source and lists MIT or Apache 2.0 licensing. The open-source toolchain is free. Contributors may offer commercial support, but requests depend on their availability.
Fantomas
Fantomas formats F# source code according to configuration, using default rules based on Microsoft’s F# style guide. Settings are also available for G-Research conventions. It runs as a .NET tool, and local installation is recommended when a repository needs to keep a fixed version. The command line accepts folders or files with `.fs`, `.fsi`, `.fsx`, `.ml` or `.mli` extensions; source files are expected to parse with the F# compiler before formatting. A limited selection of options can be placed in `.editorconfig` for automatic use by the command-line tool. For continuous integration checks, `dotnet fantomas check` reports formatting drift and exits with a failure code when files need formatting. Setup guides are available for JetBrains Rider, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio, and the official site links to an online tool for trying the formatter and its settings. Fantomas and its library are available under the Apache 2.0 license. The project is described as an fsprojects incubation project. It is free and open source, with web access listed alongside Linux, macOS and Windows.