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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