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Author: Eilidih Parris

Redocly CLI – lint OpenAPI

August 8, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Redocly CLI is an all-in-one OpenAPI utility. It builds, manages, improves, and quality-checks your OpenAPI descriptions

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Spectral – flexible JSON/YAML linter

August 8, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Spectral is a flexible JSON/YAML linter for creating automated style guides, with baked in support for OpenAPI, Arazzo, and AsyncAPI.

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vacuum – OpenAPI, AsyncAPI and JSON Schema linter

August 7, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

vacuum is a fast OpenAPI linter for Linux with Spectral rulesets, JSON Schema and AsyncAPI checks, reports, and an interactive dashboard.

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autopep8 – formats Python code

August 7, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

autopep8 automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide.

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isort – Python utility and library to sort imports

August 6, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

isort is a Python utility / library to sort imports alphabetically and automatically separate into sections and by type.

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Black – code formatter

August 5, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Black is the uncompromising Python code formatter. By using it, you agree to cede control over minutiae of hand-formatting.

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Vulture – find dead code

August 5, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Vulture finds unused code in Python programs. This is useful for cleaning up and finding errors in large code bases.

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Fixit – configurable Python linting framework

August 4, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Fixit is a LibCST-based Python linting framework with custom rules, automatic fixes and hierarchical configuration for larger projects.

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Radon – computes various metrics from Python code

August 3, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Radon is a Python tool that computes various metrics from the source code.

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Pyroma – assess Python package quality

August 2, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Pyroma assesses Python package quality, checking metadata, descriptions and distributions to improve the quality of PyPI releases.

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Prospector – unified Python source code analysis

August 1, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Prospector runs Python linters to identify errors, style violations and complexity problems, with configurable profiles and reports.

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Pylama – code audit tool for Python

August 1, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Pylama is an open source code audit tool for Python. Pylama wraps a variety of open source tools, mostly linters.

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Bandit – find security issues in Python code

July 31, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Bandit scans Python source code for common security issues using AST analysis, severity ratings and configurable checks for CI workflows.

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YALA – Yet Another Linter Aggregator

July 31, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

YALA combines many linters to improve the quality of your code.

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wemake-python-styleguide – strict Python linting rules

July 30, 2025 Eilidih Parris Software

wemake-python-styleguide extends Flake8 with strict rules for Python complexity, naming and maintainability, complementing Ruff workflows.

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Coding

RSLint – fast, customizable, and easy to use JavaScript and TypeScript linter

July 30, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

RSLint uses parallelism to utilize multiple threads to speed up linting on top of being compiled to native code.

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Pylint – comprehensive static code analyser for Python

July 29, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Pylint analyses Python code for errors, code smells and coding conventions. Explore its checks, configuration, plugin system and reports.

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XO – configurable ESLint wrapper

July 29, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

XO is an opinionated but configurable ESLint wrapper with lots of goodies included. It enforces strict and readable code.

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Standard – JavaScript style guide, linter, and formatter

July 28, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

standard is designed to save you time by avoiding bikeshedding about code style. It’s a style guide, linter, and formatter.

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pycodestyle – Python style guide checker

July 28, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

pycodestyle is a tool to check your Python code against some of the style conventions in PEP 8.

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