What is Review Board?
Review Board is an open source, web-based code and document review tool built to help companies, open source projects, and other organizations keep their quality high and their bug count low.
Review Board is a tool in the Code Review category of a tech stack.
Review Board is an open source tool with 1.5K GitHub stars and 427 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Review Board's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Review Board?
Companies
Developers
17 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Review Board.
Review Board Integrations
GitHub, Git, Slack, GitLab, and Trello are some of the popular tools that integrate with Review Board. Here's a list of all 18 tools that integrate with Review Board.
Pros of Review Board
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Review Board's Features
- Syntax-highlighted diffs
- Smarter indentation handling
- Moved code detection
- Know exactly what function or class you're in
- See more context in your diffs
- Multi-line commenting in diffs/text files
- Track status of automated builds and reviews
Review Board Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Review Board?
Crucible
It is a Web-based application primarily aimed at enterprise, and certain features that enable peer review of a code base may be considered enterprise social software.
Bitbucket
Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, all with free private Git repositories. Teams choose Bitbucket because it has a superior Jira integration, built-in CI/CD, & is free for up to 5 users.
GitLab
GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
