Review of code quality metrics and tools

- [Instructor] Metrics and tools, super important … to maintaining code quality. … Now, I want to be clear. … The concepts that I'm talking about … apply to almost any programming language … and framework regardless of the platform … you're working on. … More tools are available to some language communities … than they are for others. … Let's take a look at the metrics. … First, complexity. … Is your codebase easy to understand? … A good first place to check … for gathering complexity information … is your integrated development environment, … commonly referred to as just an IDE. … Most modern IDEs have support … for collecting complexity metrics. … And there are also a large number … of individual command-line interface, or CLI, tools … which will collect complexity metrics for you. … For Ruby, there's Reek. … If you're using Python, turn to Radon. … JavaScript, use ESLint. … There's also a growing market … of cloud-based application suites … that make it easier to collect complexity metrics …