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Code Climate vs JSHint: What are the differences?
What is Code Climate? Automated Ruby Code Review. 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.
What is JSHint? A Static Code Analysis Tool for JavaScript. It is a community-driven tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code. It is open source and can easily adjust in the environment you expect your code to execute.
Code Climate and JSHint can be primarily classified as "Code Review" tools.
StackShare, Typeform, and thoughtbot are some of the popular companies that use Code Climate, whereas JSHint is used by ZOZI, 8PERCENT, and Moovone. Code Climate has a broader approval, being mentioned in 179 company stacks & 223 developers stacks; compared to JSHint, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of Code Climate
- Auto sync with Github71
- Simple grade system that motivates to keep code clean49
- Better coding45
- Free for open source30
- Hotspots for quick refactoring candidates21
- Continued encouragement to a have better / cleaner code15
- Great UI13
- Makes you a better coder11
- Duplication Detection10
- Safe and Secure5
- Private2
- Extremely accurate in telling you the errors2
- GitHub only2
- Python inspection2
- Great open community2
- GitHub integration, status inline in PRs2
- Uses rubocop2
- Locally Installable API1
Pros of JSHint
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Cons of Code Climate
- Learning curve, static analysis comparable to eslint2
- Complains about small stylistic decisions1
Cons of JSHint
- Non-intuitive configuration1
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