Plato Reviews & Product Details

I like that this tool is extremely easy to install and use. You can get up and running within 10 minutes. Almost every JavaScript developer already has node installed so it is a simple global module installation and you have access to the plato command. When you run the command pointing it to your JavaScript files, HTML pages are generated containing the static analysis reports. There are a lot of great charts and useful metrics on what JavaScript files might be too complicated and need refactoring. You can dive into each file and it will suggest potential issues as well for each line of code. If you want to impress your team with some neat and useful tooling, this is one I'd use. I also like the fact that Plato maintains a JSON file containing a history of scores for every time you ran it. With that, you can put a process on your CI server that runs Plato and you can check if the maintainability score went up or down on every commit and do things like trigger failed builds if the new commits decrease the project maintainability scores by too much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish the "Average Maintainability" metric provided tips on how to improve your score. I have heard that not many projects get over 80, but sometimes I don't know what I can do to improve the application's maintainability score. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Plato is a great tool to generate statistics like Number of lines of code, estimated bugs per line and maintainability. It does the job and the CLI utility is easy to use and generates a nice HTML report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's lacking support for ES6 features - it can't be used with codebases which use Babel to take advantage of ES6 features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy setup and great visualization of code complexity, JSHint integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very little metrics. Basically, it counts "source lines of code" and "cyclomatic complexity" and build couple of synthetic indices based on that metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.