Hello everyone, i've been working on Kotlin server...

# server

[Khurram Malik]

Hello everyone, i've been working on Kotlin server application for a while now and i am thinking of adding automated linting checks on future PRs. I've searched a bit on the internet what linting plugins are available for Kotlin. I could not find anything that is official Jetbrains developed. So the question is:
1. Are there any plans of developing an official linting library for Kotlin?
2. Are there any recommendations from Kotlin team what linting library developers should use?

[simon.vergauwen]

Detekt is a popular one, #detekt.

Another one is KtLint, but it doesn’t really do a lot of automated linting checks more auto-formatting.
For auto-formatting there is also KtFmt.

All 3 can work nicely together. There is also support for Detekt to automatically make comments for code smells etc on Git platforms.

[edrd]

JetBrains recently announced Qodana: https://www.jetbrains.com/qodana/jvm/

[simon.vergauwen]

That works specifically for JVM, no? Or doesn’t it also offer help for Kotlin specific linting ?

[Khurram Malik]

@edrd It is perfect for my use-case since i am developing on jvm.