Use Husky to manage git hooks

Git hooks is a powerful tool to make your life easier.

It fires off custom scripts when certain important actions occur. one common scene like: you want to lint your code every time when you commit changes, so that your code has a good style and following your team’s code specification. Or you want to run test before pushing your code/

Like many other Version Control Systems, Git has a way to fire off custom scripts when certain important actions occur. There are two groups of these hooks: client-side and server-side. Client-side hooks are triggered by operations such as committing and merging, while server-side hooks run on network operations such as receiving pushed commits. You can use these hooks for all sorts of reasons.

With git hooks, you can make these actions automatically.

While husky is a tool to make Git hooks easier to use. To use it is very easy

First you install it as a development dependency with npm:

npm install husky --save-dev

OR yarn:

yarn add husky -D

Then in your package.json , add:

{
	"husky": {
		"hooks": {
			"pre-commit": "yarn lint",
			"pre-push": "yarn test",
			"...": "..."
		}
	}
}

In the example, we added 2 hooks, pre-commit and pre-push, they are meant what they named.

• pre-commit means, every time you run git commit, it will run yarn lint first, and commit the code if yarn lint passes without error.
• pre-push run command yarn test when you run git push
• yarn lint and yarn test are commands that you define in your scripts in package.json. normally those commands that you runs manually, like yarn start or yarn dev, etc. you can add any command you want and run the, in the hooks.

Pretty straight forward and easy :)