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Hound vs JSHint: What are the differences?

Developers describe Hound as "A hosted service that comments on Ruby style guide violations in your GitHub pull requests". Take care of pesky code reviews with a trusty Hound. Hound reviews GitHub pull requests for style guide violations. On the other hand, JSHint is detailed as "A Static Code Analysis Tool for JavaScript". It is a community-driven tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code. It is open source and can easily adjust in the environment you expect your code to execute.

Hound and JSHint can be primarily classified as "Code Review" tools.

Hound is an open source tool with 1.73K GitHub stars and 395 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hound's open source repository on GitHub.

thoughtbot, Punchh, and Verba are some of the popular companies that use Hound, whereas JSHint is used by ZOZI, 8PERCENT, and Moovone. Hound has a broader approval, being mentioned in 12 company stacks & 15 developers stacks; compared to JSHint, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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    Comments on style so I don't have to
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    Easy configuration
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    Fast
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    Free for OSS
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    Inline comments
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        Non-intuitive configuration

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      What is Hound?

      Automated code review for GitHub pull requests. It comments on code quality and style issues, allowing you and your team to better review and maintain a clean codebase.

      What is JSHint?

      It is a community-driven tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code. It is open source and can easily adjust in the environment you expect your code to execute.

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