What is Linting

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PHPLint  JSLint  and I recently came across  quot you can lint your JS code on the fly quot  while reading something about some IDE  So  what is  quot linting quot

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lint is a tool that is used to mark the source code with some suspicious and non-structural  may cause bug   It is a static code analysis tool in C at the beginning Now it became the generic term used to describe the software analysis tool that mark the suspicious code

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Linting is the process of running a program that will analyse code for potential errors   See lint on wikipedia      lint was the name originally given to a particular program that flagged some suspicious and non-portable constructs  likely to be bugs  in C language source code  The term is now applied generically to tools that flag suspicious usage in software written in any computer language

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Interpreted languages like Python and JavaScript benefit greatly from linting  as these languages don   t have a compiling phase to display errors before execution   Linters are also useful for code formatting and or adhering to language specific best practices   Lately I have been using ESLint for JS React and will occasionally use it with an airbnb-config file

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Apart from what others have mentioned  I would like to add that  Linting will run through your source code to find   -  formatting discrepancy   -  non-adherence to coding standards and conventions   -  pinpointing possible logical errors in your program   Running a Lint program over your source code  helps to ensure that source code is legible  readable  less polluted and easier to maintain

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Linting is the process of checking the source code for Programmatic as well as Stylistic errors  This is most helpful in identifying some common and uncommon mistakes that are made during coding   A Lint or a Linter is a program that supports linting  verifying code quality   They are available for most languages like JavaScript  CSS  HTML  Python  etc    Some of the useful linters are JSLint  CSSLint  JSHint  Pylint

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Lint was the name of a program that would go through your C code and identify problems before you compiled  linked  and ran it   It was a static checker  much like FindBugs today for Java   Like Google   lint  became a verb that meant static checking your source code

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Linting is a process by a linter program that analyzes source code in a particular programming language and flag potential problems like syntax errors  deviations from a prescribed coding style or using constructs known to be unsafe    For example  a JavaScript linter would flag the first use of parseInt below as unsafe      without a radix argument - Unsafe var count   parseInt countString       with a radix paremeter specified - Safe var count   parseInt countString  10

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