[Prettier Plugin] Incompatible with @ianvs/prettier-plugin-sort-imports when using prettier.config.js

[chrissantamaria]

What version of Tailwind CSS are you using?

tailwindcss v3.3.2, prettier-plugin-tailwindcss v0.2.8

What build tool (or framework if it abstracts the build tool) are you using?

vite v4.3.1 (but in my reproduction repo that's not too relevant, this is just a Prettier issue)

What version of Node.js are you using?

v18.8.0

What browser are you using?

N/A

What operating system are you using?

macOS

Reproduction URL

https://github.com/chrissantamaria/prettier-plugin-tailwindcss-sort-order-bug

Describe your issue

I noticed that, despite being listed as a compatible plugin in the README, @ianvs/prettier-plugin-sort-imports is incompatible with prettier-plugin-tailwindcss. With the Tailwind plugin listed last in the plugins array (as instructed in the README), it still takes precedence over the sort plugin and effectively disables it.

Notably, this only occurs when using a JS-based prettier.config.js file (where plugins are require'd) rather than a JSON-based .prettierrc. I suspect this is due to the require changing how plugins are loaded, but I'm not familiar with the internals of either plugin to be sure.

Some alternatives I tried:

• using @trivago/prettier-plugin-sort-imports instead - this has the same issue
• using a different package manager - npm v8.18, Yarn v1.22 and pnpm v8.3 all have the same issue
• using prettier-plugin-tailwindcss v0.2.3, as this was the first version to officially support @ianvs/prettier-plugin-sort-imports - no luck
• creating a custom plugin combining aspects of both - this actually did work, but is far from elegant

If this is expected functionality, it may be a good idea to make a note of the differences between prettier.config.js and .prettierrc in prettier-plugin-tailwindcss's README (especially given that it shows examples using both).

(this is a duplicate of a discussion I opened a few weeks ago - didn't get any traction there, but if you'd rather move discussion back feel free to close this!)

[chrissantamaria]

ahhh sorry, just realized I opened this against tailwindlabs/tailwindcss instead of tailwindlabs/prettier-plugin-tailwindcss. will reopen there!