codelyzer

What is codelyzer?

Codelyzer is a static analysis tool for Angular projects that helps developers follow best practices and coding standards. It integrates with TSLint to provide a set of rules specific to Angular applications.

What are codelyzer's main functionalities?

Template Accessibility

Codelyzer can check for accessibility issues in Angular templates, such as ensuring that interactive elements are accessible to screen readers.

<button (click)="doSomething()">Click me</button>

Component Class Style

Codelyzer enforces consistent coding styles in Angular component classes, such as proper use of dependency injection and class member ordering.

class MyComponent { constructor(private myService: MyService) {} }

Template Syntax

Codelyzer checks for correct usage of Angular template syntax, ensuring that structural directives like *ngIf and *ngFor are used properly.

<div *ngIf="isVisible">Content</div>

Lifecycle Hooks

Codelyzer ensures that Angular lifecycle hooks are implemented correctly and follow best practices.

class MyComponent implements OnInit { ngOnInit() { console.log('Initialized'); } }

Other packages similar to codelyzer

eslint-plugin-angular

ESLint plugin for AngularJS applications. It provides a set of rules for AngularJS, similar to how Codelyzer provides rules for Angular. However, it is focused on AngularJS (1.x) rather than Angular (2+).

angular-eslint

A set of ESLint rules, configurations, and tools to lint Angular applications. It is similar to Codelyzer but uses ESLint instead of TSLint, which is beneficial as TSLint is deprecated.

tslint

TSLint is a static analysis tool for TypeScript code. While it is not specific to Angular, it can be extended with custom rules like those provided by Codelyzer. Note that TSLint is deprecated in favor of ESLint.

README

Codelyzer

A set of tslint rules for static code analysis of Angular TypeScript projects.

You can run the static code analyzer over web apps, NativeScript, Ionic, etc.

How to use?

Angular CLI

Angular CLI has support for codelyzer. In order to validate your code with CLI and the custom Angular specific rules just use:

ng new codelyzer
ng lint

Note that by default all components are aligned with the style guide so you won't see any errors in the console.

Angular Seed

Another project which has out of the box integration with codelyzer is angular-seed. In order to run the linter you should:

# Skip if you've already cloned Angular Seed
git clone https://github.com/mgechev/angular-seed

# Skip if you've already installed all the dependencies of Angular Seed
cd angular-seed && npm i

# Run all the tslint and codelyzer rules
npm run lint

Note that by default all components are aligned with the style guide so you won't see any errors in the console.

Custom Setup

You can easily use codelyzer with your custom setup:

Installation

npm i codelyzer@~3.1.0 tslint@^5.0.0 typescript@^2.1.4 @angular/core@4.2.1 @angular/compiler@4.2.1 rxjs@5.0.1 zone.js@0.8.4

A. Using codelyzer package in PATH

Create the following tslint.json file like:

{
  "extends": [ "codelyzer" ],
  "rules":{
    "angular-whitespace": [true, "check-interpolation", "check-pipe", "check-semicolon"],
    "banana-in-box": true,
    "templates-no-negated-async": true,
    "directive-selector": [true, "attribute", "sg", "camelCase"],
    "component-selector": [true, "element", "sg", "kebab-case"],
    "use-input-property-decorator": true,
    "use-output-property-decorator": true,
    "use-host-property-decorator": true,
    "use-view-encapsulation": true,
    "no-attribute-parameter-decorator": true,
    "no-input-rename": true,
    "no-output-rename": true,
    "no-forward-ref": true,
    "use-life-cycle-interface": true,
    "use-pipe-transform-interface": true,
    "pipe-naming": [true, "camelCase", "sg"],
    "component-class-suffix": true,
    "directive-class-suffix": true,
    "templates-use-public": true,
    "no-access-missing-member": true,
    "invoke-injectable": true,
    "template-to-ng-template": true
  }
}

To run TSLint with this setup you can use one of the following alternatives:

1. Install codelyzer globally npm install -g codelyzer

2. Run TSLint from a package.json script by adding a script like tslint . to your package.json, similar to:

"scripts": {
  ...
  "lint": "tslint .",
  ...
},

Then run npm run lint

B. Using codelyzer from node_modules directory

Now create the following tslint.json file where your node_modules directory is:

{
  "rulesDirectory": [
    "node_modules/codelyzer"
  ],
  "rules":{
    "angular-whitespace": [true, "check-interpolation", "check-pipe"],
    "banana-in-box": true,
    "templates-no-negated-async": true,
    "directive-selector": [true, "attribute", "sg", "camelCase"],
    "component-selector": [true, "element", "sg", "kebab-case"],
    "use-input-property-decorator": true,
    "use-output-property-decorator": true,
    "use-host-property-decorator": true,
    "no-attribute-parameter-decorator": true,
    "no-input-rename": true,
    "no-output-rename": true,
    "no-forward-ref": true,
    "use-view-encapsulation": true,
    "use-life-cycle-interface": true,
    "use-pipe-transform-interface": true,
    "pipe-naming": [true, "camelCase", "sg"],
    "component-class-suffix": true,
    "directive-class-suffix": true,
    "templates-use-public": true,
    "no-access-missing-member": true,
    "invoke-injectable": true,
    "template-to-ng-template": true
  }
}

Next you can create a component file in the same directory with name component.ts and the following content:

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'codelyzer',
  template: `
    <h1>Hello {{ nme }}!</h1>
  `
})
class Codelyzer {
  name: string = 'World';

  ngOnInit() {
    console.log('Initialized');
  }
}

As last step you can execute all the rules against your code with tslint:

$ ./node_modules/.bin/tslint -c tslint.json component.ts

You should see the following output:

component.ts[4, 13]: The selector of the component "Codelyzer" should have prefix "sg" (https://goo.gl/cix8BY)
component.ts[12, 3]: Implement lifecycle hook interface OnInit for method ngOnInit in class Codelyzer (https://goo.gl/w1Nwk3)
component.ts[9, 7]: The name of the class Codelyzer should end with the suffix Component (https://goo.gl/5X1TE7)
component.ts[6, 18]: The property "nme" that you're trying to access does not exist in the class declaration. Probably you mean: "name".

Editor Configuration

Note that you need to have tslint plugin install on your editor.

Codelyzer should work out of the box with Atom but for VSCode you will have to open Code > Preferences > User Settings, and enter the following config:

{
  "tslint.rulesDirectory": "./node_modules/codelyzer",
  "typescript.tsdk": "node_modules/typescript/lib"
}

Now you should have the following result:

Enjoy!

Changelog

You can find it here.

Recommended configuration

Below you can find a recommended configuration which is based on the Angular Style Guide.

{
  // The rule have the following arguments:
  // [ENABLED, "attribute" | "element", "selectorPrefix" | ["listOfPrefixes"], "camelCase" | "kebab-case"]
  "directive-selector": [true, "attribute", ["dir-prefix1", "dir-prefix2"], "camelCase"],
  "component-selector": [true, "element", ["cmp-prefix1", "cmp-prefix2"], "kebab-case"],

  "use-input-property-decorator": true,
  "use-output-property-decorator": true,
  "use-host-property-decorator": true,
  "no-attribute-parameter-decorator": true,
  "no-input-rename": true,
  "no-output-rename": true,
  "no-forward-ref": true,
  "use-life-cycle-interface": true,
  "use-pipe-transform-interface": true,

  // [ENABLED, "SUFFIX"]
  // Where "SUFFIX" is your custom suffix, for instance "Page" for Ionic 2 components.
  "component-class-suffix": [true, "Component"],
  "directive-class-suffix": [true, "Directive"],
  "templates-use-public": true,
  "no-access-missing-member": true,
  "invoke-injectable": true
}

Advanced configuration

Codelyzer supports any template and style language by custom hooks. If you're using Sass for instance, you can allow codelyzer to analyze your styles by creating a file .codelyzer.js in the root of your project (where the node_modules directory is). In the configuration file can implement custom pre-processing and template resolution logic:

// Demo of transforming Sass styles
var sass = require('node-sass');

module.exports = {

  // Definition of custom interpolation strings
  interpolation: ['{{', '}}'],

  // You can transform the urls of your external styles and templates
  resolveUrl(url, decorator) {
    return url;
  },

  // Transformation of the templates. This hooks is quite useful
  // if you're using any other templating language, for instance
  // jade, markdown, haml, etc.
  //
  // NOTE that this method WILL NOT throw an error in case of invalid template.
  //
  transformTemplate(code, url, decorator) {
    return { code: code, url: url };
  },

  // Transformation of styles. This hook is useful is you're using
  // any other style language, for instance Sass, Less, etc.
  //
  // NOTE that this method WILL NOT throw an error in case of invalid style.
  //
  transformStyle(code, url, decorator) {
    var result = { code: code, url: url };
    if (url && /\.scss$/.test(url)) {
      var transformed = sass.renderSync({ data: code, sourceMap: true, outFile: '/dev/null' });
      result.source = code;
      result.code = transformed.css.toString();
      result.map = transformed.map.toString();
    }
    return result;
  },

  // Custom predefined directives in case you get error for
  // missing property and you are using a template reference
  predefinedDirectives: [
    { selector: 'form', exportAs: 'ngForm' }
  ],

  // None = 0b000, Error = 0b001, Info = 0b011, Debug = 0b111
  logLevel: 0b111
};

Contributors

mgechev	preslavsh	wKoza	rokerkony	GregOnNet	eppsilon

ghsyeung	Kobzol	lazarljubenovic	clydin	connor4312	Foxandxss

Hotell	comfroels	plantain-00	nexus-uw	Manduro	karol-depka

leosvelperez	rtfpessoa	scttcper	laco0416	tmair	cexbrayat

License

MIT

Changelog

3.2.0

Features

• i18n best practices #377 5ef90aa
• Add a rule which verifies the use of the life cycle methods according to the type of class (Component, Directive, Service,...) #363 6b042f7
• Friendlier checking of validator directive names #397 28ecbdd

Bug Fixes

• Error on validating a pipe with @Pipe decorator where we use a shorthand syntax for passing properties #399 8e3fafb
• Broken check-pipe option of angular-whitespace #365 bef790b
• Some rules report false positives #379 8719674 4721aca bef790b

Thanks to @wKoza for working on the introduced features, bug fixes and code reviews!