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Why DCM?

Linting is an essential practice in modern software development that involves analyzing source code to flag potential errors, bugs, stylistic inconsistencies, and deviations from best practices.

The Problem​

Building software is hard. And building high quality software that is easy to maintain is even harder. To keep the codebase on a certain quality level, developers spend a lot of time on manual, routine, but necessary tasks. Time that can be instead used on delivering what your customers need.

ChallengesChallenges

DCM saves you time and money, helping your team focus on delivering what your customers need without compromising quality. Over time, using DCM helps you manage technical debt and minimize rework.

Here is How DCM Can Help Your Team​

  1. Detect issues early: Detecting issues early in the development cycle prevents the need for extensive debugging and rework later.

  2. Reduce time spend on fixing bugs: DCM lint rules identify common and hard-to-spot mistakes that could lead to runtime errors, performance issues, or logical flaws, allowing developers to fix issues before they become problems.

  3. Speed up code review: DCM automated checks reduce the burden on code reviewers by catching simple mistakes and style issues, allowing reviewers to focus on the more complex aspects of the code and reduce the number of review iterations.

  4. Enforce consistent code style: DCM lint rules help you ensure that code written by different team members looks and behaves uniformly, making the codebase easier to understand and maintain.

  5. Reduce time-to-market: With DCM, developers focus more on implementing features than formatting and syntax corrections.

  6. Simplify knowledge sharing: With the quickly evolving Dart and Flutter ecosystem, keeping up with all the latest changes becomes more challenging. With DCM, your team can rely on automatic checks to adopt new platform features quickly.

  7. Speed up onboarding: New team members can quickly adapt to the project's coding standards through enforced linting rules, easing the onboarding process.

  8. Increase developers' satisfaction: A consistent codebase reduces frustration and cognitive load for developers, enabling them to work more efficiently and confidently. DCM helps maintain this consistency, facilitating a positive work environment and increasing job satisfaction.

  9. Reduce technical debt: Unmanaged technical debt significantly increases delivery time even for simplest tasks. DCM helps your team produce code that adheres to consistent standards and is easier to maintain, reducing the long-term cost of the project.

  10. Unify code style between multiple projects: DCM helps unify the code style between multiple projects, making it easier for your developers to switch between them.

  11. Reduce time spend on refactoring: With DCM commands, slow and mundane refactoring (such as finding unused code or duplicate code) takes just minutes instead of hours.

  12. Avoid investing in your custom solutions: Implementing your solution can address some of the problems above. However, building developer tools requires expertise different from what your team has with building Flutter apps, and this expertise cannot be reused for your customers' benefit. Moreover, it will distract you from delivering value to your customers.

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