diff --git a/.githooks/pre-commit b/.githooks/pre-commit
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8752801247
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.githooks/pre-commit
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+julia --color=yes dev/flux_format.jl --verbose .
diff --git a/dev/Project.toml b/dev/Project.toml
index f3aab8b8bf..24d6711c07 100644
--- a/dev/Project.toml
+++ b/dev/Project.toml
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 [deps]
+Flux = "587475ba-b771-5e3f-ad9e-33799f191a9c"
+Git = "d7ba0133-e1db-5d97-8f8c-041e4b3a1eb2"
 JuliaFormatter = "98e50ef6-434e-11e9-1051-2b60c6c9e899"
diff --git a/dev/setup.jl b/dev/setup.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..baf0efdb15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/setup.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# setup the custom git hook
+using Git
+
+# set the local hooks path
+const git = Git.git()
+run(`$git config --local core.hooksPath .githooks/`)
+
+# set file permission for hook
+Base.Filesystem.chmod(".githooks", 0o777; recursive = true)