Installer addons-linter avec Homebrew

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil

Commandes et alias

• addons-linter

Historique du projet

The official GitHub repository was created in September 2015 under Mozilla. The README frames the linter as infrastructure for validating packaged or unpacked WebExtensions, with output suitable for developers and for automation.

The linter's implementation is organized around scanners, rules, collectors, and reporters. The README says it relies heavily on ESLint for JavaScript, cheerio for HTML parsing, and Fluent tooling for language packs. As of November 2021, Mozilla's dispensary library-detection work was merged into the project and exposed through a CLI script.

Historique d'adoption

Official adoption is unusually direct: Mozilla documents that addons-linter is used by web-ext and addons.mozilla.org. That makes it part of the normal Firefox extension development and submission path, not just an optional local lint command.

The package is published for Node users and packaged by Homebrew in the supplied metadata. The repository API shows an active Mozilla project with GitHub Pages documentation and regular tags through the 9.x and 10.x series.

Modes d'utilisation

Developers install it globally from npm or use the packaged binary, then run addons-linter against an XPI/ZIP file or an extension source directory. It reports errors, warnings, notices, metadata, and JSON output for automation.

Library users can create a linter instance directly from JavaScript, pass config that mirrors CLI options, and consume structured linter results. The README also documents privileged-extension behavior behind the --privileged flag.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

addons-linter matters to package people because it is validation tooling at the boundary between a source tree and a distributable browser add-on. It encodes platform policy, extension packaging expectations, and submission-time checks in a reusable CLI that downstream package managers can install like any other development tool.

Chronologie

• 2015-09: GitHub repository created.
• 2021-11: dispensary was merged into addons-linter, according to the README.
• Current README: Node.js v22 or greater is required for development.

Related projects

• web-ext is documented as a consumer.
• addons.mozilla.org / addons-server is documented as a consumer.
• dispensary was merged into the repository.

Sources

• https://api.github.com/repos/mozilla/addons-linter
• https://api.github.com/repos/mozilla/addons-linter/tags?per_page=20
• https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter#readme
• https://mozilla.github.io/addons-linter/
• source_facts.package-manager