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Reek vs SonarLint: What are the differences?
Developers describe Reek as "Code smell detector for Ruby". Reek is a tool that examines Ruby classes, modules, and methods and reports any Code Smells it finds. On the other hand, SonarLint is detailed as "An IDE extension to detect and fix issues as you write code". It is an IDE extension that helps you detect and fix quality issues as you write code Like a spell checker, it squiggles flaws so that they can be fixed before committing code..
Reek and SonarLint can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.
Reek is an open source tool with 3.11K GitHub stars and 226 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Reek's open source repository on GitHub.
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What is Reek?
Reek is a tool that examines Ruby classes, modules, and methods and reports any Code Smells it finds.
What is SonarLint?
It is an IDE extension that helps you detect and fix quality issues as you write code.
Like a spell checker, it squiggles flaws so that they can be fixed before committing code.
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What are some alternatives to Reek and SonarLint?
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.
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.
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.
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.