Getting Started in 2024 with CI linting

[Johannes H]

Hi everyone,

we want to enforce the .editorconfig files in our repos in the CI. However, `eclint`, which is mentioned in many tutorials, is archived on GitHub and didn't seem to get any updates since 5 years. The go implementation seems to be more recent, but is still in version 0.5 and apperantly not stable. 

editorconfig-checker looks recent and stable and is apperantly used in the image mstruebing/editorconfig-checker on Dockerhub. Is that the best option to get started with today?
Also, Mega-Linter is mentioned, which supports many other linters, but also as a 10GB image size - instead of 23MB for editorconfig-checker. 

I'm happy to write a blog article for editorconfig.org to make it easier for new developers to get started.

[Hong Xu]

On 2/16/24 05:51, Johannes H wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> we want to enforce the .editorconfig files in our repos in the CI. However, `eclint`, which is mentioned in many tutorials, is archived on GitHub and didn't seem to get any updates since 5 years. The go implementation seems to be more recent, but is still in version 0.5 and apperantly not stable.

> editorconfig-checker <https://github.com/editorconfig-checker/editorconfig-checker>looks recent and stable and is apperantly used in the image mstruebing/editorconfig-checker <https://hub.docker.com/r/mstruebing/editorconfig-checker> on Dockerhub. Is that the best option to get started with today?
> Also, Mega-Linter <https://nvuillam.github.io/mega-linter/> is mentioned, which supports many other linters, but also as a 10GB image size - instead of 23MB for editorconfig-checker.

> I'm happy to write a blog article for editorconfig.org to make it easier for new developers to get started.
>

Hi John,

Sorry for the late reply. Unfortunately, I don't think we currently have an official EditorConfig-based linter that works and I don't think we have a plan for that either.

Regarding editorconfig-checker, it seems like a decent choice, but it was not developed within the official EditorConfig project. The status also seems largely unclear to me; if you have explored the various lint and written a blog post, I'm happy to be an eager reader :)

Best,
HOng