The fastest polyglot Git hooks manager out there
Fast and powerful Git hooks manager for Node.js, Ruby or any other type of projects.
With Go (>= 1.19):
go install github.com/evilmartians/lefthook@latest
With NPM:
npm install lefthook --save-dev
With Ruby:
gem install lefthook
Installation guide with more different installation instructions.
Lefthook is easy to use. Once you configure and setup you can forget that it even exists and rely on the magic underneath.
See:
lefthook.ymlGives you more speed. Example
pre-push:
parallel: true
If you want your own list. Custom and prebuilt examples.
pre-commit:
commands:
frontend-linter:
run: yarn eslint {staged_files}
backend-linter:
run: bundle exec rubocop --force-exclusion {all_files}
frontend-style:
files: git diff --name-only HEAD @{push}
run: yarn stylelint {files}
If you want to filter list of files. You could find more glob pattern examples here.
pre-commit:
commands:
backend-linter:
glob: "*.rb" # glob filter
exclude: "application.rb|routes.rb" # regexp filter
run: bundle exec rubocop --force-exclusion {all_files}
If you want to execute the commands in a relative path
pre-commit:
commands:
backend-linter:
root: "api/" # Careful to have only trailing slash
glob: "*.rb" # glob filter
run: bundle exec rubocop {all_files}
If oneline commands are not enough, you can execute files. Example.
commit-msg:
scripts:
"template_checker":
runner: bash
If you want to control a group of commands. Example.
pre-push:
commands:
packages-audit:
tags: frontend security
run: yarn audit
gems-audit:
tags: backend security
run: bundle audit
If you are in the Docker environment. Example.
pre-commit:
scripts:
"good_job.js":
runner: docker run -it --rm <container_id_or_name> {cmd}
If you a frontend/backend developer and want to skip unnecessary commands or override something into Docker. Description.
# lefthook-local.yml
pre-push:
exclude_tags:
- frontend
commands:
packages-audit:
skip: true
If you want to run hooks group directly.
$ lefthook run pre-commit
If you want to run specific group of commands directly.
fixer:
commands:
ruby-fixer:
run: bundle exec rubocop --force-exclusion --safe-auto-correct {staged_files}
js-fixer:
run: yarn eslint --fix {staged_files}
$ lefthook run fixer
If you don't want to see supporting information:
skip_output:
- meta #(version and which hook running)
- success #(output from runners with exit code 0)
1.3.2 (2023-02-27)
FAQs
Simple git hooks manager
The npm package lefthook receives a total of 169,419 weekly downloads. As such, lefthook popularity was classified as popular.
We found that lefthook demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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