How do we feel about adding in StandardJS/Rb?

[zspencer]

I've been putting off the linter question for a while; but I think it'll probably help if we had linters for:

1. CSS
2. JS
3. Ruby
4. Erb

with a default configuration that is, ideally, as close to the "community standard" as possible.

Does anyone have recommendations?

[anaulin]

I would love to start adding linters (or similar) to the project.

For Ruby, Rubocop still seems to be standard. We could consider also adding rails_best_practices.

I am not as familiar with what are the most common tools for other languages, but StandardJS looks great for JS.

I am less concerned about linting for ERB or CSS (but not opposed to it), so I would prioritize those lower.

[zspencer]

To clarify, standardrb uses Rubocop under the hood; but it provides a slightly more community-governed set of linting rules as defaults. I wonder how many "fixes" the default standardrb linter would want to make vs rubocop but I also worry about editor compatibility since that's been a bit of a time-sink for us with Solargraph.

[anaulin]

As long as there are command-line tools to do the linting and auto-formatting, I don't think that editor compatibility should be a concern.

Contributors might (will!) use different toolchains, it doesn't seem feasible to ensure that our tools have plugins for every editor. (And I also wouldn't want to implicitly or explicitly declare a particular editor as "preferred" for working on the project).

[zspencer]

Perfect! PR is in! #916