Source Code Analysis Tools - Java, JavaScript, .NET, PHP, Python, Ruby

 

Javascript Source Code Analysis Tools (open source and commercial)

 

Aether

Aether is an open source tool that lint, analyze, normalize, transform, sandbox, run, step through, and visualize user JavaScript, in node or the browser. Aether aims to make it easy for people to learn and write JavaScript and CoffeeScript by helping them catch and fix bugs, letting them see and more easily understand the execution of their program (like Bret Victor commanded!), and giving them tips on how they can improve their code. CodeCombat is behind it.


ESLint

ESLint is an open source tool static anaylsis tool for identifying and reporting on patterns found in ECMAScript/JavaScript code. In many ways, it is similar to JSLint and JSHint with a few exceptions.


JSCS JavaScript Code Style

JSCS (JavaScript Code Style) is an open source code style linter/formatter for programmatically enforcing your style guide. You can configure JSCS for your project/company using over 150 validation rules. It includes presets from popular JavaScript style guides like jQuery, Airbnb or Google.


JavaScript Lint

JavaScript Lint is an open source tool to check all your JavaScript source code for common mistakes without actually running the script or opening the web page. JavaScript Lint is based on JSLint. JavaScript Lint holds an advantage over competing lints because it is based on the JavaScript engine for the Firefox browser. This provides a robust framework that can not only check JavaScript syntax but also examine the coding techniques used in the script and warn against questionable practices.


JSHint

JSHint provides static code analysis for JavaScript. JSHint is a community-driven tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code and to enforce your team's coding conventions.


JSLint

JSLint is a JavaScript program that looks for problems in JavaScript programs. It is a code quality tool.


Flow

Flow is an open source static type checker developed by Facebook, designed to find type errors in JavaScript program. Flow adds static typing to JavaScript to improve developer productivity and code quality. In particular, static typing offers benefits like early error checking, which helps you avoid certain kinds of runtime failures, and code intelligence, which aids code maintenance, navigation, transformation, and optimization.


Iroh.js

Iroh is an open source dynamic code analysis tool for JavaScript. Iroh allows to record your code flow in realtime, intercept runtime information and manipulate program behavior on the fly. In contrast to static analysis (e.g. used in Babel and ESlint), dynamic analysis allows to collect data which is only available at runtime.


PHP CodeSniffer

PHP_CodeSniffer is a PHP5 script that tokenises and "sniffs" PHP, JavaScript and CSS files to detect violations of a defined coding standard. It is an essential development tool that ensures your code remains clean and consistent. It can also help prevent some common semantic errors made by developers.


Plato

Plato is an open source tool that allows JavaScript source code visualization, static and complexity analysis.


SonarLint (SonarJS)

SonarLint, also known as SonarJS, is an IDE extension produced by SonarQube that helps you detect and fix quality issues as you write JavaScript code. Like a spell checker, SonarLint squiggles flaws so that they can be fixed before committing code.


Tern

Tern is a stand-alone open source code-analysis engine for JavaScript. It is intended to be used with a code editor plugin to enhance the editor's support for intelligent JavaScript editing.


Yasca

Yasca consists of two components: a framework for conducting source code analyses, and an implementation of that framework, leveraging custom plugins, FindBugs, PMD, and Jlint