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Modular task runner with a linter fashion
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npm install -g adviser
Adviser's goal is to run rules defined in a configuration file. It doesn't get involve in what the rules do; it just run them and control them.
In order to use it, you need to:
$ adviser
If you run adviser without any arguments it will try to find a valid configuration file in the current directory and continues in through the parent directories until find a configuration file.
-c, --config Specify config file path
-i, --init Run config initialization wizard
-d, --debug Output debugging information
-V, --verbose Display extra information
-t, --tags Run rules that match tags
-h, --help Show help
-v, --version Output the version number
{
"plugins": ["plugin1", "plugin2"],
"rules": {
"plugin1/exampleWarnRule": "warn",
"plugin1/exampleErrorRule": "error",
"plugin1/exampleOffRule": "off",
"plugin2/exampleNumberWarnRule": 1,
"plugin2/exampleNumberErrorRule": 2,
"plugin2/exampleNumberOffRule": 0,
"plugin2/exampleFullWarnRule": ["warn", {options: 'options'}],
"plugin2/exampleFullErrorRule": ["error", {name: 'plugin'}],
"plugin2/exampleFullNumberWarnRule": [1, {name: 2}],
"plugin2/exampleFullNumberErrorRule": [2, {}]
}
}
All the rules documentation is located inside /docs/rules
Rules:
To releasing new versions we are using standard-version.
Steps:
$ git checkout master; git pull origin master$ npm run release$ git push --follow-tags origin master && npm publishThere is a small set of tests implemented using Jest, to run them use: $ npm test
To test adviser running with built-in rules, run $ npm run adviser on the directory __tests__/integration
To use plugins and rules you can install one of the plugins created by the same team that created adviser:
Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests.
FAQs
Jam3 Quality advisor
The npm package adviser receives a total of 97 weekly downloads. As such, adviser popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that adviser demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 18 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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