husky VS simple-git-hooks

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Let’s walk through the steps for a one-time setup to configure husky pre-commit and pre-push hooks, ESLint with code styles conventions, prettier code formatter, and lint-staged. Husky automatically runs a script on each commit or push. This is useful for linting files to enforce code styles that keeps the entire code base following conventions.

We were already using lint-staged and have a pre-commit hook in place using Husky in our project for linter and prettier. So it made sense to add a check here.

Now, let's talk about Husky. It's a wonderful tool that enables you to run scripts on any Git hooks. We'll add a pre-commit hook to run ESLint and Stylelint checks before committing. This ensures that we don't commit code with errors.

In all my projects I use husky, lint-staged and commitlint.

One of the greatest things about a monorepo is that you can centralise a lot of tooling configuration. For example, chuck a .prettierrc in the root of your monorepo and you'll never have arguments about code style again. Put a few base tsconfigs in the there to extend, and suddenly TypeScript behaves with beautiful consistency across all your packages. Add formatting, linting and husky as dependencies in the root of your workspace and you no longer need to work through upgrading everything individually when a new version comes out.

Install simple-git-hooks package if not used on the project. If this package or an analogue, for example, husky, skip this point. We will move on to the configuration in the next section.

A good alternative for Husky is simple-git-hooks (https://github.com/toplenboren/simple-git-hooks) which works much like the old Husky.