linters.md

Using linters

In addition to the linters provided by lesshint, it's also possible to include custom ones. These can either be npm modules or paths to local linters on disk.

The linter loading steps

1. If a relative path is passed it'll first try to load it by resolving the path against process.cwd(). If it's a absolute path, it'll load it directly.
2. If the first step fails, it'll try to load it as a Node module. If lesshint is installed globally only globally installed linters are available (the normal Node module loading rules apply).
3. If it still fails to load the linter, it'll try to load it relative to the location of the .lesshintrc file in use.

Using reporters from the CLI

lesshint --linters my-super-awesome-linter file.less
lesshint --linters /path/to/my/super/awesome/linter.js file.less

Please note that each custom linter will need to be enabled in your .lesshintrc file before they can be used.

"awesomeLinter": {
    "enabled": true,
    "someOption": false
}