Linting

Linters are used in mozilla-central to help enforce coding style and avoid bad practices. They cover a wide variety of languages and checks.

Getting Help

If you need help or have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us via Matrix in the “Lint and Formatting” room (#lint:mozilla.org).

Getting Started

• Running Linters Locally
  • Using the Command Line
  • Using a VCS Hook
• Fixing Lint Errors
• Editor Integration

Linter Implementations

• Spotless
• Black
• clang-format
• clippy
• Codespell
• cpp virtual final
• ESLint
• Mozilla ESLint Plugin
• Mozilla ESLint SpiderMonkey JS
• File permission
• Trailing whitespaces
• Flake8
• Fluent Lint
• L10n
• License
• Lintpref
• MinGW capitalization
• PerfDocs
• pylint
• Rejected words
• RST Linter
• Rustfmt
• Trojan Source

Linter Specifics

• MozLint
• Adding a New Linter to the Tree