The Best JavaScript Static Analysis Tools (Linters/Formatters)
We rank 107 JavaScript linters, code analyzers, formatters, and more. Find and compare tools like Mega-Linter, Semgrep, ESLint, and more. Please rate and review tools that you've used. This helps others find the best tools for their projects.
25 JavaScript Tools
RSLint
A (WIP) JavaScript linter written in Rust designed to be as fast as possible, customizable, and easy to use.
Closure Compiler
A compiler tool to increase efficiency, reduce size, and provide code warnings in JavaScript files.
NodeJSScan
A static security code scanner for Node.js applications powered by libsast and semgrep that builds on the njsscan cli tool. It features a UI with various dashboards about an application's security status.
aether
Lint, analyze, normalize, transform, sandbox, run, step through, and visualize user JavaScript, in node or the browser.
ClosureLinter
Ensures that all of your project's JavaScript code follows the guidelines in the Google JavaScript Style Guide. It can also automatically fix many common errors.
DeepScan
An analyzer for JavaScript which targets runtime errors and quality issues rather than coding conventions.
escomplex
Software complexity analysis of JavaScript-family abstract syntax trees.
hegel
A static type checker for JavaScript with a bias on type inference and strong type systems.
jshint
Detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code and enforce your team's coding conventions.
retire.js
Scanner detecting the use of JavaScript libraries with known vulnerabilities.
TypL
With TypL, you just write completely standard JS, and the tool figures out your types via powerful inferencing.
xo
Opinionated but configurable ESLint wrapper with lots of goodies included. Enforces strict and readable code.
Jalangi2
Jalangi2 is a popular framework for writing dynamic analyses for JavaScript.
Iroh.js
A dynamic code analysis tool for JavaScript. Iroh allows to record your code flow in realtime, intercept runtime informations and manipulate program behaviour on the fly.
82 Multi-Language Tools
Mega-Linter
Mega-Linter can handle any type of project thanks to its 70+ embedded Linters, its advanced reporting, runnable on any CI system or locally, with assisted installation and configuration, able to apply formatting and fixes
SonarQube
SonarQube empowers development teams with a code quality and security solution that deeply integrates into your enterprise environment; enabling you to deploy clean code consistently and reliably. SonarQube provides a free and open source Community Edition.
Bearer
Open-Source static code analysis tool to discover, filter and prioritize security risks and vulnerabilities leading to sensitive data exposures (PII, PHI, PD). Highly configurable and easily extensible, built for security and engineering teams.
ThreatMapper
Vulnerability Scanner and Risk Evaluation for containers, serverless and hosts at runtime. ThreatMapper generates runtime BOMs from dependencies and operating system packages, matches against multiple threat feeds, scans for unprotected secrets, and scores issues based on severity and risk-of-exploit.
DeepSource
In-depth static analysis to find issues in verticals of bug risks, security, anti-patterns, performance, documentation and style. Native integrations with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket. Less than 5% false positives.
Better Code Hub
Better Code Hub checks your GitHub codebase against 10 engineering guidelines devised by the authority in software quality, Software Improvement Group.
ReSharper
Extends Visual Studio with on-the-fly code inspections for C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, JavaScript, TypeScript and other technologies.
codeql
Deep code analysis - semantic queries and dataflow for several languages with VSCode plugin support.
parasoft
Automated Software Testing Solutions for unit-, API-, and web UI testing. Complies with MISRA, OWASP, and others.
trivy
A Simple and Comprehensive Vulnerability Scanner for Containers and other Artifacts, Suitable for CI. Trivy detects vulnerabilities of OS packages (Alpine, RHEL, CentOS, etc.) and application dependencies (Bundler, Composer, npm, yarn, etc.). Checks containers and filesystems.
Codeac
Automated code review tool integrates with GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab (even self-hosted). Available for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, Java, Docker, and more. (open-source free)
Offensive 360
Commercial Static Code Analysis system doesn't require building the source code or pre-compilation.
biome
A toolchain for web projects, aimed to provide functionalities to maintain them. Biome formats and lints code in a fraction of a second. It is the successor to Rome. It is designed to eventually replace Biome is designed to eventually replace Babel, ESLint, webpack, Prettier, Jest, and others.
oxc
The Oxidation Compiler is creating a suite of high-performance tools for the JavaScript / TypeScript language re-written in Rust.
Putout
Pluggable and configurable code transformer with built-in eslint, babel plugins support for js, jsx typescript, flow, markdown, yaml and json.
Application Inspector
Commercial Static Code Analysis which generates exploits to verify vulnerabilities.
CodeQue
Ecosystem for structural matching JavaScript and TypeScript code. Offers search tool that understands code structure. Available as CLI tool and Visual Studio Code extension. It helps to search code faster and more accurately making you workflow more effective. Soon it will offer ESLint plugin to create your own rules in minutes to help with assuring codebase quality.
Hound CI
Comments on style violations in GitHub pull requests. Supports Coffeescript, Go, HAML, JavaScript, Ruby, SCSS and Swift.
Atom-Beautify
Beautify HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Coldfusion, SQL, and more in Atom editor.
coala
Language independent framework for creating code analysis - supports over 60 languages by default.
CodePatrol
Automated SAST code reviews driven by security, supports 15+ languages and includes security training.
ezno
A JavaScript compiler and TypeScript checker written in Rust with a focus on static analysis and runtime performance. Ezno's type checker is built from scratch. The checker is fully compatible with TypeScript type annotations and can work without any type annotations at all.
lizard
Lizard is an extensible Cyclomatic Complexity Analyzer for many programming languages including C/C++ (doesn't require all the header files or Java imports). It also does copy-paste detection (code clone detection/code duplicate detection) and many other forms of static code analysis. Counts lines of code without comments, CCN (cyclomatic complexity number), token count of functions, parameter count of functions.
Mobb
Mobb is a trusted, automatic vulnerability fixer that secures applications, reduces security backlogs, and frees developers to focus on innovation. Mobb is free for open-source projects.
pylama
Code audit tool for Python and JavaScript. Wraps pycodestyle, pydocstyle, PyFlakes, Mccabe, Pylint, and more
SafeQL
Validate and auto-generate TypeScript types from raw SQL queries in PostgreSQL. SafeQL is an ESLint plugin for writing SQL queries in a type-safe way.
Snyk Code
Snyk Code finds security vulnerabilities based on AI. Its speed of analysis allow us to analyse your code in real time and deliver results when you hit the save button in your IDE. Supported languages are Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C#, Go and TypeScript. Integrations with GitHub, BitBucket and Gitlab. It is free to try and part of the Snyk platform also covering SCA, containers and IaC.
TencentCodeAnalysis
Tencent Cloud Code Analysis (TCA for short, code-named CodeDog inside the company early) is a comprehensive platform for code analysis and issue tracking. TCA consist of three components, server, web and client. It integrates of a number of self-developed tools, and also supports dynamic integration of code analysis tools in various programming languages.
Unibeautify
Universal code beautifier with a GitHub app. Supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, Vue, C++, Go, Objective-C, Java, Python, PHP, GraphQL, Markdown, and more.
Betterscan CE
Checks your code and infra (various Git repositories supported, cloud stacks, CLI, Web Interface platform, integrationss available) for security and quality issues. Code Scanning/SAST/Linting using many tools/Scanners deduplicated with One Report (AI optional).
CodeSee
CodeSee is mapping and automating your app's services, directories, file dependencies, and code changes. It's like Google Map, but for code.t
WhiteHat Application Security Platform
WhiteHat Scout (for Developers) combined with WhiteHat Sentinel Source (for Operations) supporting WhiteHat Top 40 and OWASP Top 10.
ApplicationInspector
Creates reports of over 400 rule patterns for feature detection (e.g. the use of cryptography or version control in apps).
CodeFlow
Automated code analysis tool to deal with technical depth. Integrates with Bitbucket and Gitlab. (free for Open Source Projects)
OpenStaticAnalyzer
OpenStaticAnalyzer is a source code analyzer tool, which can perform deep static analysis of the source code of complex systems.
Qwiet AI
Identify vulnerabilities that are unique to your code base before they reach production. Leverages the Code Property Graph (CPG) to run its analyses concurrently in a single graph of graphs. Automatically finds business logic flaws in dev like hardcoded secrets and logic bombs
Semgrep Supply Chain
Quickly find and remediate high-priority security issues. Semgrep Supply Chain prioritizes the 2% of vulnerabilities that are reachable from your code.
Veracode
Find flaws in binaries and bytecode without requiring source. Support all major programming languages: Java, .NET, JavaScript, Swift, Objective-C, C, C++ and more.
autocorrect
A linter and formatter to help you to improve copywriting, correct spaces, words, punctuations between CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean).
emerge
Emerge is a source code and dependency visualizer that can be used to gather insights about source code structure, metrics, dependencies and complexity of software projects. After scanning the source code of a project it provides you an interactive web interface to explore and analyze your project by using graph structures.
SonarLint
SonarLint is a free IDE extension available for IntelliJ, VS Code, Visual Studio, and Eclipse, to find and fix coding issues in real-time, flagging issues as you code, just like a spell-checker. More than a linter, it also delivers rich contextual guidance to help developers understand why there is an issue, assess the risk, and educate them on how to fix it.
StaticReviewer
Static Reviewer executes code checks according to the most relevant Secure Coding Standards, OWASP, CWE, CVE, CVSS, MISRA, CERT, for 40+ programming languages, using 1000+ built-in validation rules for Security, Deadcode & Best Practices Available a module for Software Composition Analysis (SCA) to find vulnerabilities in open source and third party libraries.
Fortify
A commercial static analysis platform that supports the scanning of C/C++, C#, VB.NET, VB6, ABAP/BSP, ActionScript, Apex, ASP.NET, Classic ASP, VB Script, Cobol, ColdFusion, HTML, Java, JS, JSP, MXML/Flex, Objective-C, PHP, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Python (2.6, 2.7), Ruby (1.9.3), Swift, Scala, VB, and XML.
LGTM
Find security vulnerabilities, variants, and critical code quality issues using CodeQL queries over source code. Automatic PR code review; free for open source. Formerly semmle. It supports public Git repositories hosted on Bitbucket Cloud, GitHub.com, GitLab.com.
CAST Highlight
Commercial Static Code Analysis which runs locally, but uploads the results to its cloud for presentation.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are JavaScript tools?
Alongside HTML and CSS, JavaScript is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web. JavaScript enables interactive web pages and is an essential part of web applications. The vast majority of websites use it for client-side page behavior, and all major web browsers have a dedicated JavaScript engine to execute it.
What are the best JavaScript static analysis tools and linters?
The most popular JavaScript tools ranked by user votes are: Mega-Linter, Semgrep, ESLint, SonarQube, Bearer.
Which JavaScript tools are free to use?
Tools with a free plan include trunk, DeepSource, Better Code Hub, Codiga, CodeSee, OpenStaticAnalyzer, Embold. On top of that, there are also a number of open source like Mega-Linter, Semgrep, ESLint, SonarQube, Bearer, Sonatype, Prettier, ThreatMapper, trunk, callGraph.