I had to admit, JS is the language I never had the patience and time to setup a linter. After a few hours I have to disable it because of numerous problems (from babel to IDE to a different plugin or option), including the fact that most NPM packages throw warnings and errors basically crippling my linter and bash. And ofc each person has its own JS style because why not. But wait, where do you put the settings? Oh here, so 10 more minutes wasted.
There are so many settings, linters, popular configs, each of them has to come trough a different NPM and each IDE has 20 settings on how to link them, and everything is soooo complicated. In the end I get hundred of warnings from 3rd party plugins, and the guess what, you have to add other options in the config to ignore those folders. God forbid to to output a message in your nodeJS app to log, the mighty linter will think you forgot it, because guess what, devs are debuging JS apps with console.log.
Sorry but life is too short. I got spoiled by Go where most of the linting is done by the compiler and builtin tools.
I had to admit, JS is the language I never had the patience and time to setup a linter. After a few hours I have to disable it because of numerous problems (from babel to IDE to a different plugin or option), including the fact that most NPM packages throw warnings and errors basically crippling my linter and bash. And ofc each person has its own JS style because why not. But wait, where do you put the settings? Oh here, so 10 more minutes wasted.
There are so many settings, linters, popular configs, each of them has to come trough a different NPM and each IDE has 20 settings on how to link them, and everything is soooo complicated. In the end I get hundred of warnings from 3rd party plugins, and the guess what, you have to add other options in the config to ignore those folders. God forbid to to output a message in your nodeJS app to log, the mighty linter will think you forgot it, because guess what, devs are debuging JS apps with console.log.
Sorry but life is too short. I got spoiled by Go where most of the linting is done by the compiler and builtin tools.
PS: sorry for my rant, your article is great
Hello Adrian, yeah I totally get how you feel about NPM third party warnings and those configuration settings. Makes you want to pull your hair out!!