If your team has ever left a comment like "missing semicolon" or "wrong quote style" on a pull request, this post is for you. Formatting is not a code review topic. It should be handled automatically before the code even reaches a PR. Here is how to do that cleanly using Husky and lint-staged. What are we actually solving? The problem is simple: developers format code differently, editors have different defaults, and without enforcement, you end up with inconsistent style that creates noisy diffs and unnecessary review comments. The goal is to auto-format and auto-lint staged files right before every commit, so bad formatting never reaches the repo.…