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Code Climate vs JSLint: What are the differences?
Developers describe Code Climate as "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. On the other hand, JSLint is detailed as "A Code Quality Tool for Javascript". It is a static code analysis tool used in software development for checking if JavaScript source code complies with coding rules. It is provided primarily as a browser-based web application accessible through their domain, but there are also command-line adaptations.
Code Climate and JSLint can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.
JSLint is an open source tool with 3.3K GitHub stars and 436 GitHub forks. Here's a link to JSLint's open source repository on GitHub.
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 JSLint
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Cons of Code Climate
- Learning curve, static analysis comparable to eslint2
- Complains about small stylistic decisions1