# Cairo format GitHub Action

By [cairopractice](https://paragraph.com/@cairopractice) · 2022-08-24

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I have a strong opinion that every new programming language should ship with a standard code formatter. Golang does. Rust does. And yes, Cairo does as well 💪

The beauty of a code formatter is that it produces code that everyone hates equally. More importantly, it removes the all-so-tiresome comments about missing a space here or a newline there during code reviews.

It was pretty easy to set up a CI action that runs `cairo-format` on your repo, but now it’s got even easier. I’ve just released `cairo-format-action`, a [GitHub Action](https://github.com/milancermak/cairo-format-action) that you can integrate in your repo to check for formatting transgressions. It’s easy as:

    name: Cairo format
    
    on:
      push:
        branches:
          - master
      pull_request:
    
    jobs:
      format:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        steps:
          - name: Checkout
            uses: actions/checkout@v3
          - name: Check Cairo formatting
            uses: milancermak/cairo-format-action@v1
    

Happy formatting 💫

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*Originally published on [cairopractice](https://paragraph.com/@cairopractice/cairo-format-github-action)*