ex_check

One task to efficiently run all code analysis & testing tools in an Elixir project.

• Runs all tools with a single convenient mix check command
• Comes out of the box with a predefined set of curated tools
• Checks the project consistently for all developers & on the CI
• Facilitates custom mix tasks and scripts acting as project checks
• Delivers results faster by running & streaming tools in parallel
• Identifies all project issues in one go by always running all tools
• Takes care of the little details (compile once, enable ANSI etc)

Read more and see demo on Cloudless Studio blog.

Getting started

Add ex_check to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:ex_check, ">= 0.0.0", only: :dev, runtime: false}
  ]
end

Optionally add curated tools to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:credo, ">= 0.0.0", only: :dev, runtime: false},
    {:dialyxir, ">= 0.0.0", only: :dev, runtime: false},
    {:ex_doc, ">= 0.0.0", only: :dev, runtime: false},
    {:sobelow, ">= 0.0.0", only: :dev, runtime: false}
  ]
end

Run the check:

mix check

Optionally generate config to adjust the check:

mix check.gen.config

Continuous Integration

With mix check you can consistently run the same set of checks locally and on the CI. CI configuration also becomes trivial and comes out of the box with parallelism and error output from all checks at once regardless if previous one failed.

Here's the minimal .travis.yml to get you started on Travis CI:

language: elixir

script: mix check

If you use the dialyzer tool, you'll also want to cover PLT build timeouts and caching:

# ...

before_script:
  - travis_wait mix dialyzer --plt

cache:
  directories:
    - _build
    - deps

Documentation

Learn more about the task workflow, included tools, configuration and options:

mix help check

Read docs for mix check on HexDocs: latest version.