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Hound vs PHP CodeSniffer: What are the differences?
What is Hound? Hound helps Engineering teams save time on code reviews. Hound reviews GitHub pull requests using tools like RuboCop, ESLint, Stylelint, etc.
What is PHP CodeSniffer? A library that detects PHP, CSS and JS coding standard violations. It tokenizes PHP, JavaScript and CSS files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards. It is an essential development tool that ensures your code remains clean and consistent.
Hound and PHP CodeSniffer can be primarily classified as "Code Review" tools.
Some of the features offered by Hound are:
- Open source
- Free for public repos
- Automated reviews of GitHub pull requests
On the other hand, PHP CodeSniffer provides the following key features:
- Code Sniffing
- Coding Standard Checking
- Coding Standard Fixing
Hound and PHP CodeSniffer are both open source tools. It seems that PHP CodeSniffer with 7.55K GitHub stars and 1.22K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Hound with 1.79K GitHub stars and 398 GitHub forks.
Pros of Hound
- Comments on style so I don't have to4
- Easy configuration3
- Fast3
- Free for OSS2
- Inline comments2