cross-check

Multi-project, project level linting.

You have a problem, and decide to use microservices - now you have N problems.

Linting tools are great for maintaining individual projects. But what do you do when you have a whole bunch of tiny projects? Maintaining consistency between different projects can become a burden.

Enter cross-check. You give it a list of git repos, and cross-check will clone them and run a series of checks on them. Output is generated in an xunit-compatible format, which makes it great for running from your CI server.

Checks are hard-coded, for now.

Current checks:

• Node.js
  • Assert no outdated dependencies using npm outdated
  • Assert no security vulnerabilities in dependencies using nsp check

Planned work:

• General
  • Assert a particular file's contents (.node-version, for example)
• Docker
  • Assert FROM version matches a regex/semver
  • Assert MAINTAINER present, or matches value
• Node
  • Assert consistency of private and license fields in package.json
  • Assert repository consistent with cloned URL
  • Assert no deprecated dependencies
• Other
  • Switch many command line options to a configuration file
  • A plaintext reporter for human readable output
  • Catch exceptions from scanners and report them as errors