Development tools and linters

This is an introduction to the development tools you are supposed to work with. The tools is a set of linters and helpers that will help you develop, maintain and test your code.

In this article you will learn how to install the tools into an empty repo, you will learn how to use them and what they can do for you.

Install tools and linters

The idea is that you have a clean repo and you need to install tools and linters for your HTML, CSS and JavaScript project. Here is a list of some useful tools.

• htmlhint, linter for HTML
• stylelint, linter for CSS
• eslint, linter for JavaScript
• jsdoc, to generate documentation from your dockblock comments
• http-server, a webserver to develop locally

Learn how to install these tools by reading the article "Development tools and linters" that you will find in the README.md in the repo "HTML CSS JavaScript dev tools".