Make It Hard to Write Bad Code

HaoZeke 8 years ago |

No no no. Linters. God. I tried them and none of them managed to play nice with all the various libraries... All I got was a mass of ugly highlighted 'wrong' code.

This after I painstakingly made my own linting rules.

eliottenos 8 years ago | |

Seemed to work fine with me in Atom? What text editor do you use?

HaoZeke 8 years ago | | |

I use sublime, but I meant that each third party library has their own idea of linting, some use BEM some use camelCase etc.. There's no way to consistently lint them all.

Linting is a great idea in theory but in practice there are way too many 'correct' approaches to writing code.

botskonet 8 years ago | | |

You shouldn't be linting third party code to begin with.

HaoZeke 8 years ago | | |

True, but for that I'd need to constantly ignore files from my linter.. Also not an ideal solution.

To clarify this happens more for sass or css projects where variables need to be set according to the base library and linters go nuts over them.

davidjnelson 8 years ago |

eslint and tslint are fantastically helpful tools for code quality.

block_chain_ 8 years ago |

I use sublime, works pretty well on that too