Oxlint High Performance Javascript Linter

---
name: "Oxlint High-Performance JavaScript Linter"
slug: "oxlint-high-performance-javascript-linter"
description: "Run Oxlint from the Oxc toolchain to lint JavaScript and TypeScript codebases at extreme speed. Written in Rust, Oxlint is 50-100x faster than ESLint and used by Shopify, ByteDance, and Preact."
github_stars: 20468
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/oxc-project/oxc"
category: "Code Quality & Review"
framework: "Claude Code"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "oxc-project/oxc"
  github_stars: 20468
  npm_package: "oxlint"
  npm_weekly_downloads: 4311641
---

# Oxlint High-Performance JavaScript Linter

Run Oxlint from the Oxc toolchain to lint JavaScript and TypeScript codebases at extreme speed. Written in Rust, Oxlint is 50-100x faster than ESLint and used by Shopify, ByteDance, and Preact.

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- [Rolldown] and [Nuxt] use Oxc for parsing. [Rolldown] also uses Oxc for transformation and minification. [Nova], [swc-node], and [knip] use [oxc_resolver][docs-resolver-url] for module resolution. [Preact], [Shopify],...
- [swc-node]: https://github.com/swc-project/swc-node

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- **Lint**: [Oxlint](https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter) — npx oxlint@latest
- **Format**: [Oxfmt](https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/formatter) — npx oxfmt@latest
- Parse JavaScript and TypeScript: [Parser](https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/parser)

- Source: https://github.com/oxc-project/oxc
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oxc-project/oxc/HEAD/README.md

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