Best Solidity Linter – Be on the Right Side of Change

💡 A code linter is a static code analysis tool to find programming errors, bugs, style mistakes, and suspicious constructs.

The best Solidity Linter is Ethlint with a close second Solhint. Most other linters are not well qualified to compete with those early tools!

Solidity Linter #1 – Ethlint

Ethlint comes with the popular slogan “yet another Solidity linting tool”.

I think the name is not well chosen because, due the fact that Solidity is super young, there is not a swamp of linting tools available, yet.

You can install it using the following expression:

npm install -g solhint

Here’s how you’d run this:

solhint [options] <file> […other_files]

💡 Learn More: Ethlint Linting Tool

Solidity Linter #2 – Solhint

Solhint is a linter for Solidity that provides security and a style guide validations.

You can install the Linter using this command:

npm install -g ethlintsolium -V

After initial configuration, the execution is as simple as running this command in your shell:

> npm run solhint

💡 Learn More: Solhint L inting Tool

I would recommend more but I think those are the two best tools at this point.

If you want to learn Soldity, I’d applause you because this means you rely less on Linters (a goal worth pursuing)! 🙂

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