As we learned in our last post, static analysis is useful in various situations, whether that’s keeping a codebase consistent, catching potential performance issues, or rewriting code to be more idiomatic. In our previous post, we used PMD to analyze Apex code. In this post, however, we’ll consider how to analyze another Salesforce programming environment: Lighting Web Components.
Salesforce developed Lightning Web Components (LWC) as a fast, enterprise-grade wrapper around vanilla web components. LWC is built on the same HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that powers the web, so any analyzer for those languages can be applied here.