diff --git a/frontend/.prettierignore b/frontend/.prettierignore
index 5f3d5e8993..50923ca6d2 100644
--- a/frontend/.prettierignore
+++ b/frontend/.prettierignore
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
+src/assets/
+dist/
+.angular/
+# The following files alredy getting formatting by eslint
 **/*.html
 **/*.ts
diff --git a/frontend/README.md b/frontend/README.md
index d6bf4073eb..79ee611146 100644
--- a/frontend/README.md
+++ b/frontend/README.md
@@ -30,9 +30,13 @@ Build:
 
 ## Formatting
 
-We use the **EsLint** code formatter for the frontend code:
+
+We use **EsLint** and a variety of plugins to format html and ts files:
 https://eslint.org/
 
+We use **prettier** to format scss json and yaml files:
+https://prettier.io/
+
 ## Test Coverage
 
 For generating the coverage of our frontend specs (jest), you can use following command: