IBLinter

A linter tool to normalize .xib and .storyboard files. Inspired by realm/SwiftLint

Installation

Using Homebrew

$ brew install iblinter

Using Mint

$ mint install IBDecodable/IBLinter

Using CocoaPods

pod 'IBLinter'

This will download the IBLinter binaries and dependencies in Pods/ during your next pod install execution and will allow you to invoke it via ${PODS_ROOT}/IBLinter/bin/iblinter in your Script Build Phases.

Compiling from source

You can build from source by cloning this repository and running

$ make install

iblinter will be installed in /usr/local/bin.

Usage

You can see all description by iblinter --help

$ iblinter --help
USAGE: iblinter <subcommand>

OPTIONS:
  --version               Show the version.
  -h, --help              Show help information.

SUBCOMMANDS:
  lint (default)          Print lint warnings and errors

  See 'iblinter help <subcommand>' for detailed help.

Xcode

Add a Run Script Phase to integrate IBLinter with Xcode

if which iblinter >/dev/null; then
  iblinter lint
else
  echo "warning: IBLinter not installed, download from https://github.com/IBDecodable/IBLinter"
fi

Alternatively, if you’ve installed IBLinter via CocoaPods the script should look like this:

"${PODS_ROOT}/IBLinter/bin/iblinter"

Requirements

IBLinter requires Swift5.0 runtime. Please satisfy at least one of following requirements.

• macOS 10.14.4 or later
• Install Swift 5 Runtime Support for Command Line Tools from More Downloads for Apple Developers

Rules

All rules are documented in Rules.md

Pull requests are encouraged.

Configuration

You can configure IBLinter by adding a .iblinter.yml file from project root directory.

key	description
enabled_rules	Enabled rules id.
disabled_rules	Disabled rules id.
excluded	Path to ignore for lint.
included	Path to include for lint.
custom_module_rule	Custom module rule configs.
use_base_class_rule	Use base class rule configs.
view_as_device_rule	View as device rule configs.

CustomModuleConfig

You can configure custom_module rule by CustomModuleConfig list.

key	description
module	Module name.
included	Path to *.swift classes of the module for custom_module lint.
excluded	Path to ignore for *.swift classes of the module for custom_module lint.

UseBaseClassConfig

You can configure use_base_class rule by UseBaseClassConfig list.

key	description
element_class	Element class name.
base_classes	Base classes of the element class.

Note: UseBaseClassRule does not work for classes that inherit base class. You need to add all classes to base_classes to check.

ViewAsDeviceConfig

You can configure view_as_device rule by ViewAsDeviceConfig. If there are no config, device_id is set as retina4_7.

key	description
device_id	Device id for device.

appx. Table of mapping device name to device_id (on Xcode 10.2)

device name	device id
iPhone 4s	retina3_5
iPhone SE	retina4_0
iPhone 8	retina4_7
iPhone 8 Plus	retina5_5
iPhone XS	retina5_9
iPhone XR	retina6_1
iPhone XS Max	retina6_5

UseTraitCollectionsConfig

You can configure use_trait_collections rule by UseTraitCollectionsConfig. If there is no config then use_trait_collections is set to true

key	description
enabled	true

HidesBottomBarConfig

You can configure hides_bottom_bar rule by HidesBottomBarConfig list.

key	description
excluded_view_controllers	Controller’s class name to ignore hides_bottom_bar rule.

enabled_rules:
  - relative_to_margin
  - use_trait_collections
  - hides_bottom_bar
  - has_single_view_controller
  - has_initial_view_controller
disabled_rules:
  - custom_class_name
excluded:
  - Carthage
  - App
included:
  - App/Views
custom_module_rule:
  - module: UIComponents
    included:
      - UIComponents/Classes
    excluded:
      - UIComponents/Classes/Config/Generated
use_base_class_rule:
  - element_class: UILabel
    base_classes:
      - PrimaryLabel
      - SecondaryLabel
view_as_device_rule:
  device_id: retina4_0
use_trait_collections_rule:
  enabled: false
hides_bottom_bar_rule:
  excluded_view_controllers:
    - FirstViewController
    - SecondViewController