textlint
Pluggable linting tool for natural language and documentation.
Linting and formatting npm MIT
How textlint is used
textlint joined the catalog on its public numbers (132,058 downloads a week on npm and 3,202 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 5 public GitHub projects of our scan, 3 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is ESLint (2,262 projects). Projects that use it most often also use jsdom (40.0%), lint-staged (40.0%), Husky (40.0%).
textlint popularity over time
Gid Score 34: downloads 45, use in agent projects 7, GitHub stars 31, downloads trend 56 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with textlint
| jsdom | 40.0% of textlint projects · 4.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| lint-staged | 40.0% of textlint projects · 5.1× more than average |
| Husky | 40.0% of textlint projects · 3.9× more than average |
| React | 60.0% of textlint projects · 1.8× more than average |
| clsx | 40.0% of textlint projects · 2.1× more than average |
| HeroUI | 20.0% of textlint projects · 65.3× more than average |
| React Three Fiber | 20.0% of textlint projects · 16.8× more than average |
| Supabase Auth Helpers for Next.js | 20.0% of textlint projects · 23.4× more than average |
How textlint is funded
GitHub Sponsors
| @azu | 81 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work, which here includes secretlint, request-filtering-agent.
Ways to fund textlint
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install textlint |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (4), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | unchain-tech/UNCHAIN-projects |
Alternatives to textlint
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside textlint are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESLint npm Linter that finds and fixes JavaScript code patterns based on AST analysis. |
85 | 2,262 (46.9%) | 96.1M | 27.6K | MIT |
| markdownlint-cli2 npm Fast, flexible CLI for linting Markdown files with configuration support. |
46 | 73 (1.5%) | 1.1M | 951 | MIT |
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