diff --git a/ts/format.sh b/ts/format.sh
index 2cd4f1a55..dd2441264 100755
--- a/ts/format.sh
+++ b/ts/format.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 # this is a hack to invoke prettier directly from Bazel
+node=$(pwd)/$1
+node_dir=$(dirname $node)
+export PATH="$node_dir:$PATH"
 (cd "${BUILD_WORKSPACE_DIRECTORY}" && node_modules/.bin/prettier \
     --config .prettierrc --write \
     $BUILD_WORKING_DIRECTORY )
diff --git a/ts/prettier.bzl b/ts/prettier.bzl
index 9807d0c7d..26d2e8bea 100644
--- a/ts/prettier.bzl
+++ b/ts/prettier.bzl
@@ -30,4 +30,6 @@ def prettier(name = "format", **kwargs):
     native.sh_binary(
         name = name,
         srcs = ["format.sh"],
+        args = ["$(location @nodejs//:node_bin)"],
+        data = ["@nodejs//:node_bin"],
     )