Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

Using the solhint linter

The solhint linter is an open source Solidity linter created by ProtoFire. solhint provides security and style guideline-specific validations. It also validates some of the best practices for Solidity; for example, the code should not have any empty blocks like the following one:

function getStatus() public view returns (bool) {    //There is no code present in this function.    //Hence, solhint will report issues for this     //empty function definition.} 

The empty block example is just one of the pattern solhint linter checks. There are many other patterns that linters check in code.