3 posts tagged with "guide"

Maintaining consistent and high-quality code is necessary in the fast-paced software development world, especially in Flutter and Dart projects, as they are known for being speedy tools. Continuous Integration (CI) has emerged as a crucial practice that helps development teams achieve this goal. CI provides rapid feedback by integrating code frequently and automating various aspects of the development process, allowing teams to identify and rectify issues early.

This article explores the significance of CI in enforcing code quality and consistency, the role of lint tools, especially DCM, and practical examples of integrating these tools with CI pipelines.

On any real-world Flutter project (but any project, really...), you want to run an analyzer and a linter at some point to ensure your quality matches the baseline your team agreed on. If you've been following me for some time, you might know that I love a promising CI/CD pipeline (heck, I even wrote a series on the topic 🙃). I always recommend running these checks in your CI pipeline.

While the benefits of using static analysis tools such as DCM are quite obvious, integrating them into an existing project can be challenging due to the many possible warnings that need attention. That's why developers prefer to add such tools in the early stages of a project and quickly give up when it comes to old existing codebases.

But when it comes to DCM there are several tricks you can use to significantly reduce the time spend on its integration.