stylelint
Linter that finds and fixes CSS errors and enforces code style conventions.
Linting and formatting npm MIT
Used in agent projects
140
1.1% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in linting and formatting
#6 of 40
by use in those projects
Downloads
10.8M
npm, last 7 days, stylelint
GitHub stars
11.5K
last push Oct 10, 2026
How stylelint is used
stylelint is a dependency in 140 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (1.1%), #6 of 40 in linting and formatting. The most used alternative there is ESLint. Projects that use it most often also use stylelint-config-standard (60.0%), ESLint (87.1%), Prettier (57.1%). It is more common in projects set up for Continue (7.9%) than for Cursor (1.5%).
Often used with stylelint
| stylelint-config-standard | 60.0% of stylelint projects · 89.6× more than average |
|---|---|
| ESLint | 87.1% of stylelint projects · 2.3× more than average |
| Prettier | 57.1% of stylelint projects · 3.3× more than average |
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 35.7% of stylelint projects · 4.1× more than average |
| lint-staged | 32.9% of stylelint projects · 7.1× more than average |
| Babel (JavaScript) | 29.3% of stylelint projects · 7.7× more than average |
| Husky | 29.3% of stylelint projects · 4.7× more than average |
| jsdom | 27.9% of stylelint projects · 5.2× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 1.8% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 1.8% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 1.5% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 2.7% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 2.2% of projects set up for it |
| OpenCode | 2.2% of projects set up for it |
| Continue | 7.9% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list stylelint as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install stylelint |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (101), Next.js (19), PHP (8), Python (7) |
| Example projects | Automattic/wp-calypso, WordPress/gutenberg, NG-ZORRO/ng-zorro-antd, primer/react, Kaggle/kaggle-environments |
Alternatives to stylelint
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESLint npm Linter that finds and fixes JavaScript code patterns based on AST analysis. |
4,833 (38.1%) | 162M | 27.6K | MIT |
| Prettier npm Opinionated code formatter for JavaScript, TypeScript, and related languages. |
2,218 (17.5%) | 138M | 52.4K | MIT |
| Biome npm Fast web toolchain providing linting, formatting and code quality all in one. |
445 (3.5%) | 17.7M | 25.9K | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| oxlint npm Fast JavaScript linter written in Rust with zero-config defaults. |
206 (1.6%) | 25.7M | 23K | MIT |
| Knip npm Find and fix unused dependencies, exports and files in TypeScript/JavaScript projects. |
150 (1.2%) | 17.5M | 12.4K | ISC |
| oxfmt npm Fast JavaScript formatter from the Oxc compiler project. |
125 (1.0%) | 16.3M | 23K | MIT |
| ESLint Import Resolver TypeScript npm ESLint plugin resolver adding TypeScript support to import/export linting. |
119 (0.9%) | 48.8M | 825 | ISC |
| Black pypi Uncompromising Python code formatter enforcing consistent style automatically. |
108 (0.9%) | 28.7M | 41.9K | — |