Alternatives to Oxlint

ESLint is the standard open-source linter for JavaScript and TypeScript with 26K+ GitHub stars. Statically analyzes code to find problems, enforce coding conventions, and automatically fix issues. Features a pluggable rule architecture with 300+ built-in rules and thousands of community plugins for React, Vue, Angular, Node.js, and more. Flat config system in ESLint v9 simplifies configuration. Integrates with every major editor, CI/CD pipeline, and build tool in the JavaScript ecosystem.

Biome is a Rust-based toolchain for JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, JSON, and CSS that combines formatting and linting in a single tool running 20-50x faster than ESLint + Prettier. Provides 300+ lint rules with automatic fixes, opinionated formatting compatible with Prettier output, and import sorting. Zero configuration needed to start with sensible defaults. Designed as a drop-in replacement for ESLint and Prettier with first-class IDE support via VS Code and JetBrains extensions.

Prettier is an opinionated code formatter with 50K+ GitHub stars that enforces a consistent style by parsing and reprinting code with its own rules. Supports JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML, JSON, Markdown, YAML, GraphQL, and more. Eliminates style debates in code reviews by making formatting automatic and deterministic. Features minimal configuration by design, editor integration for format-on-save, and pre-commit hooks via husky. The de facto formatting standard for web development.

Ruff is a Python linter and code formatter written in Rust by Astral that runs 10-100x faster than existing tools like flake8, isort, and Black. It implements over 800 lint rules from dozens of popular plugins in a single binary, handles auto-fixing for most violations, and includes a built-in formatter compatible with Black. Adopted by FastAPI, Hugging Face, Pandas, and Apache Airflow, Ruff has over 38,000 GitHub stars and processes entire codebases in milliseconds.