Faster mix format

Posted on November 7, 2023
Tags: elixir

Running mix format on larger projectes can be very slow as every file is being checked. mix format can be given a list of files such as mix format user.ex api.ex finance.ex so that it formats only the given files.

You can do this by running mix format $(git diff --name-only).

time mix format
mix format  2.23s user 0.68s system 285% cpu 1.022 total

time mix format $(git diff --name-only)
mix format $(git diff --name-only)  0.26s user 0.11s system 51% cpu 0.725 total