static code analysis

Friday, November 12, 2021

JavaScript Static Code Analysis

JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages. Depending on the ranking we check, it could be 7th (TIOBE Index), 3rd (PYPL index), or even the 1st (JetBrains) most popular. It is a high-level and multi-paradigm language with dynamic typing. In my experience, it could be very poorly written with a lot of inconsistencies - take a look at some prevalent libraries and modules in the NPM repository.

Monday, September 20, 2021

CSS, SCSS and Sass Static Code Analysis

Cascading Style Sheets is the most widespread style sheet language. It is one of the three pillars of modern web development. Although CSS is not the most complicated language, it could still gain a lot from SAST (Static Analysis Software Testing) tools. The standard tool used for code analysis for CSS, or Sass used as a preprocessor, by all professionals is Stylelint.

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Static Code Analysis for Laravel

Today I will show you what type of static code analysis tools I use for Laravel based projects. With some configuration changes, one could use all of them with any PHP project, such as those using Symfony. Static code analysis is a source code structure analysis and test without running or compiling the code. Although it will not find all potential problems and bugs and replaces code review, it could be beneficial, especially in bigger teams.

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