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Luacheck is a static analyzer and linter for Lua code that detects various issues such as undefined global variables, unused variables and values, accessing uninitialized variables, unreachable code, and more.

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Supported Files

Luacheck will run on files with the following extensions:
  • .lua

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Configuration

Luacheck supports the following configuration files:
  • .luacheckrc
  • luacheckrc
  • .luacheckrc.lua
  • luacheckrc.lua
Luacheck does not require configuration to run. If no configuration file is found, it will use default settings.

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When we skip LuaCheck

CodeRabbit will skip running LuaCheck when:
  • LuaCheck is already running in GitHub workflows.

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Ignored rules

The following LuaCheck rules are automatically ignored:
  • W113 - accessing undefined variable
  • W611 - line too long
  • W112 - line contains only whitespace
  • W631 - line that ends with whitespace

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Profile behavior

In Chill mode, LuaCheck only reports errors (not warnings). In Assertive mode, LuaCheck reports both errors and warnings.

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Features

Luacheck can detect:
  • Usage of undefined global variables
  • Unused variables and values
  • Accessing uninitialized variables
  • Unreachable code
  • And many more issues