Edit 10/16/2025: I have created an issue for this idea: #18089

The CLI cache settings are really nice.

I'd love to be able to configure these from a Prettier configuration file instead of from the CLI.

• --cache
• --cache-location
• --cache-strategy

Like this:

// prettier.config.cjs

module.exports = {
  cache: true,
  cacheLocation: '.cache/prettier/.prettier-cache',
  cacheStrategy: CI ? 'content' : 'metadata',
}

This way the caching strategy can be set dynamically for CI vs local, and my package.json can be a lot cleaner:

From this:

{
  "scripts": {
    "format": "prettier --cache --cache-location=.cache/prettier/.prettier-cache",
    "format:ci": "npm run format -- --cache-strategy=content",
    "format:local": "npm run format -- --cache-strategy=metadata",
  }
}

To this:

{
  "scripts": {
    "format": "prettier"
  }
}

I wanted to get some thoughts and opinions from the maintainers and community first. I would be happy to write up an issue, and possibly a PR, if there is a positive consensus about this.