HHAST: Linters

Quick Start

php composer.phar require hhvm/hhast
vendor/bin/hhast-lint src/

PHP must be used to execute composer, not HHVM.

This will run a default set of linters against your source tree. If you do not have a configuration file, paths must be specified on the command line.

Configuration

An hhast-lint.json in your project root can be used to modify which linters are used, or to otherwise customize the behavior. A minimal configuration would be:

{
  "roots": [ "src/" ]
}

This would configure hhast-lint with no arguments check src/ with otherwise-default settings. For information on additional options, see LintRunConfig::TConfigFile.

Options can also be overriden for specific file patterns or subdirectories - for example, HHAST itself disables autofixes for codegen/.

Suppressing Lint Errors

An individual error can be suppressed by adding a comment containing HHAST_FIXME[LinterName] or HHAST_IGNORE_ERROR[LinterName] before the affected statement or expression (usually on the previous line). The comment should also contain an explanation.

// HHAST_FIXME[UnusedVariable] planning to use this later
$answer = 42;

HHAST_FIXME and HHAST_IGNORE_ERROR behave identically, choose between them based on which one better explains the reason for suppressing the linter.

You can suppress all lint errors of a specific type in one file by adding a comment containing HHAST_IGNORE_ALL[LinterName] anywhere in the file.

Editor and IDE Support

Editor and IDE integration requires executing vendor/bin/hhast-lint when a .hhconfig and hhast-lint.json is present; if you do not trust the repositories you edit code in, this may be a security risk.

Atom IDE and Nuclide

The ide-hhast package (atom-ide-hhast) shows lint errors, and provides the option to fix many automatically.

This plugin will prompt before executing vendor/bin/hhast-lint for each project. The atom-ide-ui package is required, unless using Nuclide.

Vim8 and Neovim

Install vim-hack and ALE; vim-hack provides filetype detection and syntax highlighting, and ALE provides support for more advanced features, including HHAST lint error reporting.

To enable HHAST support, add let g:ale_linters = { 'hack': ['hack', 'hhast'] } to your .vimrc. Note that this will execute vendor/bin/hhast-lint in any project, without further prompting.

Visual Studio Code

Install vscode-hack; this provides a rich experience for Hack and HHAST, including lint error reporting and autofixing.

This plugin will prompt before executing vendor/bin/hhast-lint for each project.

atom-ide-hhast for Atom IDE and Nuclide
vscode-hack for Visual Studio Code

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