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In this article, we will be learning about
SonarLint which is one of the most popular and widely used plugins nowadays for
any code development.
What is SonarLint?
SonarLint is a popular IDE extension that
helps us to detect and fix quality issues as and when we starting writing the
code.
it just works like a spell checker, SonarLint
helps in finding flaws so that they can be fixed before committing code.
Some of the feature of
Sonarlint includes:
The most amazing feature about this plugin is
that it supports all major IDE like eclipse, IntelliJ, VS Code, Visual studio.
In this article, I would be showing how we can setup sonarlint in eclipse.
To start working with
Sonarlint we need to follow below steps:
1. Open
Eclipse and Navigate to Help > Eclipse Market Place.
2.
Search for SonarLint and click install.
3.
Confirm the installation of sonarlint into eclipse
4. Once
SonarLint will get installed make sure to restart your eclipse.
5. Now
we will be able to see the errors and suggestions by the sonarlint about the
quality of our code.
6. To
explicitly run this we can perform right-click on any File/Project we wanted to
scan and can use SonarLint option either to scan or to exclude the scanning.
7. This
will provide a detailed report about all the errors.
