golangci-lint VS golangci-lint-action

Compare golangci-lint vs golangci-lint-action and see what are their differences.

golangci-lint

Fast linters Runner for Go (by golangci)

golangci-lint-action

Official GitHub action for golangci-lint from its authors (by golangci)
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golangci-lint golangci-lint-action
60 2
12,551 810
1.7% 2.8%
9.5 6.9
8 days ago 2 days ago
Go TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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golangci-lint

Posts with mentions or reviews of golangci-lint. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-23.

golangci-lint-action

Posts with mentions or reviews of golangci-lint-action. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-15.
  • Go Package CI/CD with GitHub Actions
    6 projects | dev.to | 15 May 2021
    Finally, we can use golangci-lint's provided GitHub Action for linting - it runs golangci-lint on the workflow runner's clone of the repo and outputs an error code if any Go file in the repo fails rules of any linters in golangci-lint. Note that golangci-lint fails if the AST cannot be parsed (i.e. if there are any syntax errors), so it can also be used for checking syntax correctness, which itself is a good proxy for checking for merge conflict strings. We can fail-fast with any checks this way - there's no need to spin up a compilation and a go test invocation if there are syntax errors.
  • CLI for Windows with Go
    8 projects | dev.to | 12 Dec 2020
    If you want to run golangci-lint in CI, you can use golangci-lint-action same as other actions.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing golangci-lint and golangci-lint-action you can also consider the following projects:

ireturn - Accept Interfaces, Return Concrete Types

gosec - Golang security checker

gopl.io - Example programs from "The Go Programming Language"

go - The Go programming language

setup-go - Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Go

ls-lint - An extremely fast directory and filename linter - Bring some structure to your project filesystem

go-tools - Staticcheck - The advanced Go linter

golang-standards/project-layout - Standard Go Project Layout

maligned - Tool to detect Go structs that would take less memory if their fields were sorted.

action-gh-release - πŸ“¦ :octocat: GitHub Action for creating GitHub Releases

viper - Go configuration with fangs

gofumpt - A stricter gofmt