Overview

Automated linting allow you to remove the cognitive load of code review for large or small projects. It allows you to focus on the larger items while the linter take care of the well define items for the different language types.

I have managed linting by different Makefile target for the different type of code. While on a large project with many different type of file formats and languages I ran across Mega-linterI. I am using Mega-linter for the following reasons:

1. It will review your code and turn on any of it linters according to your file types.
2. It has a well layered set of documentation based on:
   1. Language like go
      1. Language linters config like golangci-lint
         1. Specific linter docs
   2. Format like markdown
      1. Specific linter markdownlint
         1. Specific linter docs
   3. Tools like Dockerfile
      1. Specific linter config like Hadolint
         1. Specific linter docs
3. It also have configuration documentation based on
   1. Mega-linter general config
   2. Sample linter config
4. Support for Github Actions
5. Difference reporting formats
6. Plugins
7. flavors for groups of languages and tools.