Why developers like AST-grep

What is AST-grep?

It is a lightning-fast and user-friendly tool for code searching, lining, and rewriting, at large scale. Using it can be as simple as running a single command in your terminal.

AST-grep is a tool in the Code Review category of a tech stack.

AST-grep is an open source tool with 5.7K GitHub stars and 134 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to AST-grep's open source repository on GitHub

AST-grep Integrations

JavaScript, Python, Java, TypeScript, and C# are some of the popular tools that integrate with AST-grep. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with AST-grep.

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C#

Golang

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Kotlin

C lang

AST-grep's Features

Blazing fast search and replace across thousands of source code files
Supports many programming languages out of box
Supports multiple forms of usages from one-line command to fully programmatic interface
Batteries-included tool with interactive codemod, language server and testing tool

AST-grep Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to AST-grep?

ESLint

A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

Prettier

Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary.

TSLint

An extensible static analysis tool that checks TypeScript code for readability, maintainability, and functionality errors. It is widely supported across modern editors & build systems and can be customized with your own lint rules, configurations, and formatters.

SonarQube

SonarQube provides an overview of the overall health of your source code and even more importantly, it highlights issues found on new code. With a Quality Gate set on your project, you will simply fix the Leak and start mechanically improving.

RuboCop

RuboCop is a Ruby static code analyzer. Out of the box it will enforce many of the guidelines outlined in the community Ruby Style Guide.

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