markdownlint
Markdown lint tool (by markdownlint)
vale
:pencil: A markup-aware linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind. (by errata-ai)
| markdownlint | vale | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 50 | |
| 1,840 | 4,710 | |
| 0.0% | 1.8% | |
| 6.4 | 9.0 | |
| about 1 year ago | 5 days ago | |
| Ruby | Go | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
markdownlint
Posts with mentions or reviews of markdownlint.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-19.
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Markdown Linting
markdownlint is a node.js markdown linter that is easy to install and easy to customize. It is based on an earlier Ruby tool, also called markdownlint. Both are great, but the Node.js tool is easy to install and easy to customize.
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Docker Build `--replace`
An example of where this can be convenient is when you want to use an external program or project that uses a language that isn't supported by your project. For example, the build process for this blog's content uses Node.js, but consider the case where I wanted to use a Markdown linter defined in Ruby, such as Markdownlint. One option is to add a Ruby installation directly to the definition of the build environment, but this has a few disadvantages:
vale
Posts with mentions or reviews of vale.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-09-17.
- Vale: A markup-aware linter for prose
- Three shell scripts to improve your writing
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Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly
In the same space, I recommend checking out the Vale linter. Fairly powerful and open source, too. And doesn't rely on a backend.
https://vale.sh
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FIXME Please: An Exercise in TODO Linters
Vale is a code prose checker. It takes a more opinionated approach to editorial style, and thus can require lots of tuning, but it is very extensible. Let’s have it check for TODOs. Run trunk check enable vale to get started.
- Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook [pdf]
- Grammarly editor writing service are malfunctioning
- Vale.sh – A Linter for Prose
- Ask HN: Best tool to proof-read technical documentation?
- Val, a high-level systems programming language
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Common Bugs in Writing
Vale is an OSS tool that you can use as a "prose linter" with many of these rules. You can also write your own rules. Together with a spellchecker its a good replacement for proprietary tools like grammarly.
- https://github.com/errata-ai/vale
What are some alternatives?
When comparing markdownlint and vale you can also consider the following projects:
vale-styles - Checks for Vale based on popular style guides
remark-lint - plugins to check (lint) markdown code style
write-good - Naive linter for English prose
markdownlint - A Node.js style checker and lint tool for Markdown/CommonMark files.
proselint - A linter for prose.