Tag: lint

SonarLint for Eclipse IDE

I’ve always been fan of tools for automation of development and testing. I’ve used SonarQube for a long time, and even connect it to my IDE (usually Eclipse), so that I can act on any warnings for code as I’m working on it.

SonarLint takes that to a new level, as it gives notifications before the code is even commited for SonarQube to analyze.

While the instructions here are for Eclipse, SonarLint is also available for IntelliJ IDEA, VisualStudio, and as a command line tool for download from the website.

Eclipse Update Site:
https://www.sonarlint.org/eclipse/

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JavaScript Code Quality (#2)

About a year ago I wrote a post regarding JSLint usage for code quality of JavaScript. There is now,for a while actually, an open-source fork of that code that allows for greater configuration.

Oddly, there are two separate sites, but I believe that they have the same content:

JavaScript code quality

I’ve programmed in a lot of different languages, and with various IDE’s. The one area that has always been lacking is a simple means to review JavaScript code for common errors, both syntactical and format. This is where JSLint and JavaScript Lint come in…. these represent the tooling previously available to other languages like C++ and Java, where you can analyze code without actually executing it to identify problem areas. Often, these are items like ‘missing semicolons’ that occasionally cause difficult to find errors in browsers.

These can be scripted to execute from the command line or within (some) IDE’s on several operating systems.