6 alternatives to ruff
astral-sh/ruff — An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust. (50,235 stars, MIT, dev-tools, testing, ui).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 1,938 licence-cleared components from astral-sh/ruff itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
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| 1 | kamadorueda/alejandra | 4.7 | Unlicense | 1,415 |
| 2 | linthtml/linthtml | 4.4 | ISC | 102 |
| 3 | realm/swiftlint | 6.2 | MIT | 19,767 |
| 4 | postcss/postcss-bem-linter | 4.6 | MIT | 574 |
| 5 | mgechev/codelyzer | 4.6 | MIT | 2,465 |
| 6 | straker/livingcss | 5.0 | MIT | 241 |
The alternatives in detail
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The Uncompromising Nix Code Formatterscore 4.7/10 · Unlicense permissive · 1,415 stars · 30 components · search them
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The html5 linter and validator.score 4.4/10 · ISC permissive · 102 stars · 97 components · search them
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A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.score 6.2/10 · MIT permissive · 19,767 stars · 507 components · search them
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A BEM linter for postcssscore 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 574 stars · 9 components · search them
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Static analysis for Angular projects.score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 2,465 stars · 94 components · search them
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Parse comments in your CSS to generate a living style guide using Markdown, Handlebars, Polymer, and Prism syntax highlighter.score 5.0/10 · MIT permissive · 241 stars · 6 components · search them
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