Why developers like Hound

What is Hound?

Hound reviews GitHub pull requests using tools like RuboCop, ESLint, Stylelint, etc .

Hound is a tool in the Code Review category of a tech stack.

Hound is an open source tool with 1.8K GitHub stars and 399 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Hound's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Hound?

Companies

11 companies reportedly use Hound in their tech stacks, including thoughtbot, Avhana Health, and LendingHome.

Developers

16 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Hound.

Hound Integrations

GitHub, Credo, RuboCop, ESLint, and SwiftLint are some of the popular tools that integrate with Hound. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Hound.

Why developers like Hound?

Here’s a list of reasons why companies and developers use Hound

Top Reasons

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Hound's Features

Open source
Free for public repos
Automated reviews of GitHub pull requests
GitHub App

Hound Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Hound?

ESLint

A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

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.

Code Climate

After each Git push, Code Climate analyzes your code for complexity, duplication, and common smells to determine changes in quality and surface technical debt hotspots.

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.

Codacy

Codacy is an automated code review tool for Scala, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Python, CoffeeScript and CSS. It's continuous static analysis without the hassle. Save time in Code Reviews. Tackle your technical debt

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