golangci-lint runs a large collection of Go static analysis tools through a single interface.
It executes linters efficiently using parallel processing, the Go build cache and its own analysis cache. The default setup is deliberately conservative, while projects can enable a much broader collection of specialised checks.
The version 2 configuration format separates linters from source formatters and provides dedicated commands for linting and formatting. Configuration can be stored in YAML, TOML or JSON.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Bundles more than a hundred Go linters behind a single command-line interface.
- Runs analysis in parallel and reuses both the Go build cache and cached analysis results.
- Provides curated default linters while allowing individual checks or complete linter sets to be enabled and disabled.
- Separate formatter support for gofmt, gofumpt, goimports, gci, golines and swaggo.
- Can automatically apply supported linter fixes and source formatting.
- Version 2 configuration supports detailed linter settings, exclusions, severities, output controls and path handling.
- Can limit results to new issues, which is useful when introducing linting to established codebases.
- Outputs text, JSON, HTML, Checkstyle, Code Climate, JUnit XML, TeamCity and SARIF reports.
- Integrates with popular editors and CI systems including GitHub Actions.
- Supports building custom golangci-lint binaries containing additional linters.
Website: github.com/golangci/golangci-lint
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Developer: GolangCI
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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