Running the linter on your entire codebase before every commit is slow and discourages developers from committing often. As the creator of CoreUI with 25 years of experience building large-scale frontend projects, I’ve standardized on lint-staged to run ESLint and Prettier only on the files you actually changed. Combined with Husky git hooks, this setup catches code quality issues automatically without slowing down your workflow. The result is a consistent codebase where every committed file meets your style and quality standards.

Running linters on every file in your Vue project before each commit can slow down your development workflow significantly, especially in large codebases. With 10 years of experience in Vue.js development since 2014 and as the creator of CoreUI, I’ve optimized countless development workflows to balance code quality with developer productivity. From my expertise, the most efficient solution is to use lint-staged to run ESLint and Prettier only on staged files, ensuring fast commits while maintaining code quality. This approach integrates seamlessly with Git hooks and reduces pre-commit time from seconds to milliseconds.