About Sonar

About company

Sonar is a linting tool and site scanner with a focus on helping developers build better, faster, and more secure websites. It’s available both as a web service that’s hosted by Microsoft and as a command-line tool for those who want to dig deeper and integrate it into their own workflows and rules. sonar doesn’t want to reinvent the wheel. For that reason it tries to integrate other tools and services that do a great job, and contribute back where appropriate. For example, we are using aXe for accessibility, SSL Server Test for checking the certificate configuration, etc. sonar‘s development started inside the Microsoft Edge team. Early on, the team realized that not only the project had to be open source, but also be community driven. The best way to achieve that was by donating the code to the JS Foundation, have a governance model that welcomes input for anyone in the web community (browser vendors, web experts, and developers), and continue the work there.