Error Prone VS react-codemod

error-prone is good for some extra static analysis.

A special kind of validation is enforcing that record fields are not null. (Un)fortunately, records do not have any special behavior regarding nullability. You can use tools like NullAway or Error Prone to prevent null in your code in general, or you can add checks to your records:

I am all in favour to more third side libraries adding functionalities, like Lombok, Manifold and error prone. As well as smaller projects like this shameless plug and what appears in this list

If only Google didn't suck when it came to Java9+ support... https://github.com/google/error-prone/issues/2649

I haven't used it. I use Google's ErrorProne + Lombok to prevent NPEs in java.

Take a look at NullAway, a plugin for Error Prone.

For some of this stuff, there are compiler extensions that allow extra type checking to be added e.g. Google Error-Prone: https://github.com/google/error-prone with stuff like: https://errorprone.info/bugpattern/ReturnMissingNullable.

Doesn't help you with third party libraries, but across an org applying that rule (and others!) typically ensures some consistency.

How to build a static analysis plugin. Google has a framework for Java with a good tutorial.

You can convert the “easy” render-only class components to function components using the pure-component codemod.

Developer Experience - There are a number of tools that improves the development experience with React. React Developer Tools is a browser extension that allows you to inspect your component, view and manipulate its props and state. Hot reloading with webpack allows you to view changes to your code in your browser, without you having to refresh the browser. Front end development involves a lot of tweaking code, saving and then refreshing the browser. Hot reloading helps you by eliminating the last step. When there are library updates, Facebook provides codemod scripts to help you migrate your code to the new APIs. This makes the upgrading process relatively pain-free. Kudos to the Facebook team for their dedication in making the development experience with React great.

Like most popular libraries, e.g. React, Next.js and more, which provide codemods to help move their huge user base across versions, we needed a bespoke and fairly simple CLI wrapper of jscodeshift, that would provide a means of publishing, downloading and running codemods. So we created a custom 'codemod-cli', our first piece of internal codemod infrastructure.

If you'd like to migrate them, the React team maintains some awesome codemods:

https://github.com/reactjs/react-codemod

Codemods - providing automated tooling to change old patterns to new ones can go a long way in helping drive adoption of the new version. The most notable example of doing this is react-codemod (many other examples exist)

Sometimes you need to migrate from one version of a library to another, for example, when React has updated to version 15.5 the PropTypes has moved to different package and the react-developers provides codemod for migration.

Can you point me towards examples of the usage of AST rewriting tools that are actively being used by open-source library maintainers in other ecosystems to help their consumers do upgrades in large code-bases (e.g. I can see that `clang` has AST tooling, but I don't see examples online of this being widely used: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/exploring-clang-tooli...).

Within the JavaScript ecosystem this is quite popular (1. https://github.com/reactjs/react-codemod; 2. https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui/tree/HEAD/packages/ma... 3. https://github.com/emotion-js/emotion/tree/main/packages/esl... etc.) Teams that maintain huge codebases have tooling to safely automate their upgrades and the best library maintainers provide their consumers with these AST transformations.

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Agree. I know js has a similar tool, jscodeshift. https://github.com/reactjs/react-codemod and https://github.com/cpojer/js-codemod/tree/master/transforms have some ideas for js.