Hasty Treat - Stylelint for Linting CSS

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Stylelint, what it is and why you should use it!

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Show Notes

03:15 - What is a linter anyway? Why do you want to lint your CSS?

• Does stylelint fix errors or just tell you errors?

04:42 - Getting setup

• .stylelintrc
• stylelint extension
• Sass
• High perf animations
• stylelint order
• Max nesting depth
• Declaration strict value

{ "extends": [ "stylelint-config-standard", "stylelint-config-sass-guidelines" ], "plugins": [ "stylelint-high-performance-animation", "stylelint-declaration-strict-value", "stylelint-order" ], "rules": { "selector-no-qualifying-type": [ true, { "ignore": [ "attribute" ] } ], "plugin/no-low-performance-animation-properties": [ true, { "ignoreProperties": [ "color", "background-color", "box-shadow" ] } ], "indentation": "tab", "order/order": [ "custom-properties", "declarations" ], "order/properties-alphabetical-order": null, "declaration-block-no-duplicate-custom-properties": true, "declaration-empty-line-before": null, "scale-unlimited/declaration-strict-value": [ [ "/color$/", "z-index", "font-size" ] ], "scss/dollar-variable-pattern": "^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]+$", "max-nesting-depth": 3, "selector-pseudo-class-no-unknown": null } } Links

• https://github.com/stylelint/awesome-stylelint
• JSLint
• JSHint
• ESLint
• VS Code

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