What is Hound?
Automated code review for GitHub pull requests. It comments on code quality and style issues, allowing you and your team to better review and maintain a clean codebase.
Hound is a tool in the Code Review category of a tech stack.
Hound is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Hound's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Hound?
Companies
10 companies reportedly use Hound in their tech stacks, including thoughtbot, GRVTY, and LendingHome.
Developers
28 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Hound.
Hound Integrations
GitHub, ESLint, RuboCop, SwiftLint, and Credo are some of the popular tools that integrate with Hound. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Hound.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
