lint 0.3.0+dart205

An opiniated, community-driven set of lint rules for Dart and Flutter projects. Like pedantic but stricter

Lint for Dart/Flutter

lint is a hand-picked, open-source, community-driven collection of lint rules for Dart and Flutter projects. The set of rules follows the Effective Dart: Style Guide.

This package can be used as a replacement for package:pedantic for those who prefer stricter rules.

Install

Add lint as dependency to your pubspec.yaml

dev_dependencies:
  lint: ^0.3.0+dart205

Create a analysis_options.yaml file in the root of your project and import the lint rules:

include: package:lint/analysis_options.yaml

If you're writing a package with a public API you should use the package version instead

include: package:lint/analysis_options_package.yaml

Comparison to package:pedantic

Google publicly shares their internal rules as package:pedantic in open-source. It represents what Google is enforcing internally throughout all Dart code. For a lint rule to be added to pedantic, Google has to change all code which doesn't follow the style.

This strict practice results in only 27/150+ rules to be enabled. While some are contradictory to each other and can not enabled together, a big chunk of rules isn't enabled because it requires too much work to update all of Googles existing code.

For developers outside Google, it is the norm to have separate lint rules per project. One project might enable more rules then others.

lint enables a majority of lint rules, leaving out contradictory and very opinionated rules.

License

Copyright 2019 Pascal Welsch

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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