Free cloud service evaluates JavaScript code quality
Due to the sheer size of many highly trafficked software repositories — Node.js’s NPM, for instance — the average developer is often left to parse metrics like GitHub stars to determine the quality of the code they’re considering.
BitHound, a Kitchener, Ontario-based code analytics firm, is preparing to offer public access to a service that does much of the dirty work, entering a burgeoning field where there’s both rising demand and existing competition.
The service analyzes a project’s JavaScript repositories in GitHub and generates reports based on the code quality. For third-party packages, BitHound provides perspective into the quality of those projects: the rate of code churn, the consistency of committers, test results for the code, and so on. The idea is to spare the user from running such checks not only on their code, but on any third-party code they may be working with.
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