Codacy - A Monitor for your Code Quality and Standards
April 24, 2019
Codacy - A Monitor for your Code Quality and Standards
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Codacy
Whether you are an open source developer or a full-time coder, you must have a coding standard so as to reach your customers. Professionals having a coding standard have more chances of getting hired or paid well. Thus, Codacy comes into play. There are two types of coders: first one who reads the documentation and tries to code precisely with standards, and the second one who just wants the code to function properly. We use Codacy to rate our code and software product so that the end user is satisfied with our work.
- Automation - Regularly check-up for your code commits. For example, you push code to Git, it will automatically update your code ratings
- Code Support - They support all major languages, for example, Python, PHP, JAVA. Thus, it becomes fast and easy to get real-time quality for your code.
- Analytics - Intuitive UI and easy dashboard give a clear display of your codebase.
- Reach - Codacy is very popular and the only good source of code quality solution.
- There should be customization to get code quality for your own projects if standards are provided.
- Offline or a standalone application is much needed from Codacy to get local support.
- Spots a lot of errors and small ones that don't affect much about quality and are de-facto standards.
- The best part after implementing the tool is that we now stand a benchmark. Our clients are more than happy to have a good quality of code.
- Increased efficiency, decision making, code reach, privacy, and standards which means it is easily acceptable internationally.
- Even you enter private information in a piece of code, it automatically asks you to remove any vulnerable information which can harm your privacy.
- Pricing is a bit high for personal customizations.
Codacy provides a good support mechanism and has very intuitive UI. Even a newbie can understand the details of a code base. The best part is you don't have to manually update everything. Once you have connected the git repository, it will automatically rate the code and updates according to your commits.