Linting - Falicer/Project_Tech_2021 GitHub Wiki

Linting: Linting is the automated checking of your source code for programmatic and stylistic errors. Linting is done by a lint tool commonly known as linter, it is a basic static code analyzer. Linting helps in reducing errors in coding and improve the quality of your code. One of the other benefits is increasing the work speed by seeing problems within codes faster.

Why would you use Linting?

  • Readability
  • Pre-code review
  • Finding (syntax) errors before execution

Source:

T, F. (2016, December 5). How linting and ESLint improve code quality | Hacker Noon. Retrieved May 16, 2021, from https://hackernoon.com/how-linting-and-eslint-improve-code-quality-fa83d2469efe