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Hound vs StyleCI: What are the differences?
What is Hound? 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.
What is StyleCI? The PHP Coding Style Continuous Integration Service. StyleCI automatically analyses all of your pull requests and will display a build status within GitHub before you merge.
Hound and StyleCI belong to "Code Review" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Hound are:
- Open source
- Free for public repos
- Automated reviews of GitHub pull requests for style guide violations
On the other hand, StyleCI provides the following key features:
- Fix PSR-1, PSR-2, PSR-5, Symfony and more.
- We watch all of your pull requests and automatically analyse them.
- Open Source
"Comments on style so I don't have to" is the primary reason why developers consider Hound over the competitors, whereas "Keeps code style consistent adheres to strict standard" was stated as the key factor in picking StyleCI.
Hound is an open source tool with 1.72K GitHub stars and 393 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hound's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Hound has a broader approval, being mentioned in 10 company stacks & 3 developers stacks; compared to StyleCI, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Hound
- Comments on style so I don't have to4
- Easy configuration3
- Fast3
- Free for OSS2
- Inline comments2
Pros of StyleCI
- Keeps code style consistent adheres to strict standard4