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ESLint
The pluggable linting utility for identifying patterns in Javascript
ESLint is an open source tool for identifying and reporting on patterns found in ECMAScript/JavaScript code. ESLint is written using Node.js -
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Ruff Visual Studio Code
A Visual Studio Code extension with support for the Ruff linter
Ruff Visual Studio Code is an official Visual Studio Code extension that integrates the Ruff Python linter and formatter directly into the development environment, enabling developers to maintain high code quality with minimal configuration. It provides real-time linting and formatting feedback as developers write code, helping catch errors, enforce style guidelines, and automatically fix issues where possible. The extension is built on top of Ruff’s high-performance Rust-based engine, which is significantly faster than traditional Python linting tools, allowing near-instant feedback even on large codebases. It supports both linting and formatting workflows, consolidating the functionality of multiple tools such as Flake8, Black, and isort into a single unified interface. -
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Ruff
An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust
An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust. Ruff aims to be orders of magnitude faster than alternative tools while integrating more functionality behind a single, common interface. Ruff can be used to replace Flake8 (plus dozens of plugins), isort, pydocstyle, yesqa, eradicate, pyupgrade, and autoflake, all while executing tens or hundreds of times faster than any individual tool. Ruff is extremely actively developed and used in major open-source projects. Ruff can be configured through a pyproject.toml, ruff.toml, or .ruff.toml file (see: Configuration, or Settings for a complete list of all configuration options). Ruff supports over 500 lint rules, many of which are inspired by popular tools like Flake8, isort, pyupgrade, and others. Regardless of the rule's origin, Ruff re-implements every rule in Rust as a first-party feature. -
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Ultracite
A highly opinionated, zero-configuration linter and formatter
Ultracite is a highly opinionated, zero-configuration linting and formatting preset designed primarily for modern JavaScript/TypeScript codebases. It is built on top of the Biome toolchain (written in Rust) and aims to deliver sub-second performance so that formatting and linting feel seamless, even on large projects. Because it comes pre-configured with sensible defaults for frameworks like React and Next.js, developers can adopt it with minimal setup—simply run npx ultracite init and start coding. The project emphasizes type-safety and best practices, enforcing stricter rules out of the box so that unsafe or sloppy patterns are discouraged. It also positions itself as “AI-ready,” meaning it’s designed to integrate smoothly into workflows where AI code generation (e.g., from Copilot, Claude Code, etc) is involved, ensuring consistent style across team-written and machine-written code. -
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go-critic
The most opinionated Go source code linter for code audit
The most opinionated Go source code linter. go-critic is a collection of checks that detect style, and performance issues as well as some common programming errors. We provide as many useful checks as possible. We’re prototyping and experimenting here. When specific check implementation is mature and proven useful, propose it’s integration into other linter. If a good checker can’t find a better home, it stays here. Almost 100 diagnostics that check for bugs, performance and style issues. Extensible without re-compilation with dynamic rules. Includes #opinionated checks with very strict and specific requirements. Self-documented: gocritic doc <checkname> gives a checker description. Usage of gocritic: gocritic [sub-command] [sub-command args...] Run gocritic without arguments to get help output. -
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stylelint
A linter that helps you avoid errors and enforce conventions
stylelint understands the latest CSS syntax including custom properties and level 4 selectors. Extracts embedded styles from HTML, markdown and CSS-in-JS object & template literals. Parses CSS-like syntaxes like SCSS, Sass, Less and SugarSS. Has over 170 built-in rules to catch errors, apply limits and enforce stylistic conventions. Supports plugins so you can create your own rules or make use of plugins written by the community. Automatically fixes the majority of stylistic violations. Itis well tested with over 15000 unit tests. Supports shareable configs that you can extend or create. It is unopinionated so that you can customize it to your exact needs. stylelint has a growing community and is used by Facebook, GitHub and WordPress. You can configure the built-in stylistic rules to allow both multi-line and single-line rules. The choice of when to use each belongs to the user. -
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golangci-lint
Fast linters Runner for Go
golangci-lint is a fast Go linters runner. It runs linters in parallel, uses caching, supports yaml config, has integrations with all major IDE and has dozens of linters included. ⚡ Very fast: runs linters in parallel, reuses Go build cache and caches analysis results. Yaml-based configuration. Integrations with VS Code, Sublime Text, GoLand, GNU Emacs, Vim, Atom, GitHub Actions. A lot of linters included, no need to install them. Minimum number of false positives because of tuned default settings. Nice output with colors, source code lines and marked identifiers. -
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Dockle
Container Image Linter for Security
Container Image Linter for Security, Helping build the Best-Practice Docker Image, Easy to start. You can install dockle with the asdf version manager with this plugin, which automates the process of installing (and switching between) various versions of github release binaries. With asdf already installed, run commands to install dockle. You can scan your built image with Dockle in Travis CI/CircleCI. Though, you can ignore the specified target checkpoints by using .dockleignore file. Or, if you just want the results to display and not let the test fail for this, specify --exit-code to 0 in dockle command. -
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Optic
Generate, Diff, and Test OpenAPI Descriptions
Vizualize API changes to improve the quality of reviews. Test API changes to ensure nothing bad slips through. OpenAPI diffs are difficult to read. Because these files contain references, small changes can have a large effect on your API. Linters can not check for backward compatibility or enforce versioning and deprecation policies. Optic adds a visual changelog to every Pull Request that makes it easy to see exactly what API changes have been proposed. Optic tests each set of API changes in CI, making it more powerful than a linter. Our built-in checks will help any team ship a more reliable API. OpenAPI diffs are very difficult to review, comprehend and give feedback on. Optic’s changelogs are easy to understand allowing anyone (even non-developers) to participate in review. Optic goes beyond linting OpenAPI, it lets you write test about each set of API changes. We also make it easy to share your API standards. -
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Super-Linter
Combination of multiple linters to install as a GitHub Action
This repository is for the GitHub Action to run a Super-Linter. It is a simple combination of various linters, written in bash, to help validate your source code. The super-linter finds issues and reports them to the console output. Fixes are suggested in the console output but not automatically fixed, and a status check will show up as failed on the pull request. The design of the Super-Linter is currently to allow linting to occur in GitHub Actions as a part of continuous integration occurring on pull requests as the commits get pushed. It works best when commits are being pushed early and often to a branch with an open or draft pull request. There is some desire to move this closer to local development for faster feedback on linting errors but this is not yet supported. There is no need to set the GitHub Secret as it is automatically set by GitHub, it only needs to be passed to the action. -
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lint-staged
Run linters on git staged files
Run linters against staged git files and don't let anything slip into your code base! Linting makes more sense when run before committing your code. By doing so you can ensure no errors go into the repository and enforce code style. But running a lint process on a whole project is slow, and linting results can be irrelevant. Ultimately you only want to lint files that will be committed. This project contains a script that will run arbitrary shell tasks with a list of staged files as an argument, filtered by a specified glob pattern. Linter commands work on a subset of all staged files, defined by a glob pattern. lint-staged uses micromatch for matching files. The concept of lint-staged is to run configured linter tasks (or other tasks) on files that are staged in git. lint-staged will always pass a list of all staged files to the task, and ignoring any files should be configured in the task itself. -
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Gulp Boilerplate
A boilerplate for building web projects with Gulp.js
A boilerplate for building web projects with Gulp.js. This project is no longer maintained, and is offered as-is. It is strongly recommended that you instead use my Build Tool Boilerplate. Concatenate, minify, and lint JavaScript. Compile, minify, autoprefix, and lint Sass. Optimize SVGs. Copy static files and folders into your dist directory. Automatically add headers and project details to JS and CSS files. Create polyfilled and non-polyfilled versions of JS files. Watch for file changes, and automatically recompile build and reload webpages. Gulp Boilerplate makes it easy to turn features on and off, so you can reuse it for all of your projects without having to delete or modify tasks. -
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Haskell Dockerfile Linter
Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell
A smarter Dockerfile linter that helps you build best practice Docker images. The linter parses the Dockerfile into an AST and performs rules on top of the AST. It stands on the shoulders of ShellCheck to lint the Bash code inside RUN instructions. You can run hadolint locally to lint your Dockerfile. You can download prebuilt binaries for OSX, Windows and Linux from the latest release page. However, if this does not work for you, please fall back to container (Docker), brew or source installation. Configuration files can be used globally or per project. -
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eslint-plugin-unicorn
More than 100 powerful ESLint rules
More than 100 powerful ESLint rules. You might want to check out XO, which includes this plugin. Each rule has emojis denoting if it belongs to the recommended configuration if some problems reported by the rule are automatically fixable by the --fix command line option, or if some problems reported by the rule are manually fixable by editor suggestions. Use a preset config or configure each rules in package.json. -
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esprint
Fast eslint runner
esprint (pronounced E-S-sprint) speeds up eslint by running the linting engine across multiple threads. esprint sets up a server daemon to cache the lint status of each file in memory. It uses a watcher to determine when files change, to only lint files as necessary. It also has a CI mode where it does not set up a daemon and just lints in parallel. In order to use esprint, first place an .esprintrc file in the root directory your project. This is similar to a .flowconfig if you use flow types. The .esprintrc file describes which paths to lint and which paths to ignore. You can also override the port to start the background server on. esprint will find the root of your project automatically and lint the whole project. In default mode, esprint will start a background server to watch source files and cache lint results in memory. -
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gts
TypeScript style guide, formatter, and linter
gts is Google's TypeScript style guide, and the configuration for our formatter, linter, and automatic code fixer. No lint rules to edit, no configuration to update, no more bike shedding over syntax. No configuration. The easiest way to enforce consistent style in your project. Just drop it in. Automatically format code. Just run gts fix and say goodbye to messy or inconsistent code. Catch style issues & programmer errors early. Save precious code review time by eliminating back-and-forth between reviewer & contributor. Opinionated, but not to a fault. We recommend you use the default configuration, but if you need to customize compiler or linter config, you can. Under the covers, we use eslint to enforce the style guide and provide automated fixes, and prettier to re-format code. -
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ktlint
An anti-bikeshedding Kotlin linter with built-in formatter
No configuration, which means no decisions to make, nothing to argue about and no special files to manage. While this might sound extreme, keep in mind that ktlint tries to capture (reflect) official code style from kotlinlang.org and Android Kotlin Style Guide (+ we respect your .editorconfig and support additional ruleset|s). Built-in formatter. So that you wouldn't have to fix all style violations by hand. Customizable output. plain (+ plain?group_by_file), JSON, HTML and check style reporters are available out-of-the-box. It's also easy to create your own. A single executable jar with all dependencies included. ktlint is a single binary with both linter & formatter included. All you need is to drop it in (no need to get overwhelmed while choosing among dozens of code style options). -
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prettier standard
Formats with Prettier and lints with ESLint+Standard!
Formats with prettier (actually prettierx) and lints with eslint preconfigured with standard rules. You don't have to fix any whitespace errors and waste time configuring eslint presets. Prettier-standard is best used with the prettier-standard --lint command which formats and lints all non-ignored files in the repository. -
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wemake-python-styleguide
The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever!
Welcome to the strictest and most opinionated Python linter ever. wemake-python-styleguide is actually a flake8 plugin with some other plugins as dependencies. Ensures consistency - no matter who works on it, the end product will always be the same dependable code. Helps avoid potential bugs - strict rules make sure that you don't make common mistakes. Efficient code reviews - each piece of code has a similar familiar style and syntax. If it passes all the checks, there's little left to review! Fewer code revisions - strict linting ensures that you don't have to re-write the codebase again and again. Reduce code redundancy - Sometimes we write complex code as we are thinking in a certain way about a problem. The linter offers suggestions that can help simplify the code and eliminate redundant statements. The ultimate goal of this project is to make all people write exactly the same Python code. -
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PyChecker is a static analysis tool for finding bugs in Python source code. It finds problems that are typically caught by a compiler for less dynamic languages, like C and C++. It is similar to lint.
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JCSC is a highly configurable checking tool for your Java source code. It checks the compliance to a defineable coding standard like naming conventions and code structure. Also signs of bad coding, potential bugs are found. JCSC is inspired by lint.
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Angular ESLint
Monorepo for all the tooling related to using ESLint with Angular
Monorepo for all the tooling which enables ESLint to lint Angular projects. Follow the latest Getting Started guide on angular.io in order to install the Angular CLI. Create a new Angular CLI workspace in the normal way, optionally using any of the supported command line arguments and following the interactive prompts. As well as installing all relevant dependencies, the ng add command will automatically detect that you have a workspace with a single project in it, which does not have a linter configured yet. It can therefore go ahead and wire everything up for you! -
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Ansible-lint
Best practices checker for Ansible
Ansible Lint is a command-line tool for linting playbooks, roles and collections aimed towards any Ansible users. Its main goal is to promote proven practices, patterns and behaviors while avoiding common pitfalls that can easily lead to bugs or make code harder to maintain. Ansible lint is also supposed to help users upgrade their code to work with newer versions of Ansible. Due to this reason we recommend using it with the newest version of Ansible, even if the version used in production may be older. As any other linter, it is opinionated. Still, its rules are the result of community contributions and they can always be disabled based individually or by category by each user. ansible-lint checks playbooks for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved. As a community-backed project ansible-lint supports only the last two major versions of Ansible. -
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Bootlint
HTML linter for Bootstrap projects
Bootlint is a tool that checks for several common HTML mistakes in webpages that are using Bootstrap in a fairly "vanilla" way. Vanilla Bootstrap's components/widgets require their parts of the DOM to conform to certain structures. Bootlint checks that instances of Bootstrap components have correctly structured HTML. Optimal usage of Bootstrap also requires that your pages include certain <meta> tags, an HTML5 doctype declaration, etc.; Bootlint checks that these are present. Bootlint assumes that you are using Bootstrap's default class names in your webpage, as opposed to taking advantage of the "mixins" functionality of Less or Sass to map them to custom class names. If you are using mixins, Bootlint may report some false-positive warnings. However, there are some Bootlint checks that are applicable even if you are using mixins pervasively.
