stylelint: Start using stylelint to lint our css.

Tweaked by tabbott to document it.

Fixes #8894.

docs/testing/linters.md

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ below will direct you to the official documentation for these projects.
 - [puppet](https://puppet.com/) (puppet provides its own mechanism for
   validating manifests)
 - [pyflakes](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyflakes)
+- [stylelint](https://github.com/stylelint/stylelint)
 
 Zulip also uses some home-grown code to perform tasks like validating
 indentation in template files, enforcing coding standards that are unique
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ following checks:
 - Check non-Python code for custom Zulip rules.
 - Check puppet manifests with the puppet validator.
 - Check HTML templates for matching tags and indentations.
-- Check CSS for parsability.
+- Check CSS for parsability and formatting.
 - Check JavaScript code for addClass calls.
 
 The remaining lint checks occur in `./tools/run-mypy`.  It is probably somewhat
@@ -204,19 +205,10 @@ clean those files up eventually.
 
 #### CSS
 
-Zulip does not currently lint its CSS for any kind of semantic correctness,
+Zulip uses [stylelint](https://github.com/stylelint/stylelint) to lint
-but that is definitely a goal moving forward.
+its CSS; see our
-
+[configuration](https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/master/.stylelintrc)
-We do ensure that our home-grown CSS parser can at least parse the CSS code.
+for the rules we currently enforce.
-This is a slightly more strict check than checking that the CSS is
-compliant to the official spec, as our parser will choke on unusual
-constructs that we probably want to avoid in our code, anyway.  (When
-the parser chokes, the lint check will fail.)
-
-You can find the code here:
-
-- driver: [check-css](https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/master/tools/check-css)
-- engine: [lib/css_parser.py](https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/master/tools/lib/css_parser.py)
 
 #### Markdown, shell scripts, JSON fixtures
 

tools/lint

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ def run():
             sys.exit(1)
 
     backend_file_types = ['py', 'sh', 'pp', 'json', 'md', 'txt', 'text', 'yaml', 'rst']
-    frontend_file_types = ['js', 'css', 'handlebars', 'html']
+    frontend_file_types = ['js', 'css', 'scss', 'handlebars', 'html']
     file_types = backend_file_types + frontend_file_types
     if args.backend:
         file_types = backend_file_types
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ def run():
         lint_functions[name] = run_linter
 
     external_linter('add_class', ['tools/find-add-class'], ['js'])
+    external_linter('css', ['node', 'node_modules/.bin/stylelint'], ['css', 'scss'])
     external_linter('eslint', ['node', 'node_modules/.bin/eslint', '--quiet', '--cache'], ['js'])
     external_linter('tslint', ['node', 'node_modules/.bin/tslint', '-c',
                                'static/ts/tslint.json'], ['ts'])
@@ -166,9 +167,6 @@ def run():
     external_linter('urls', ['tools/check-urls'], ['py'])
     external_linter('swagger', ['node', 'tools/check-swagger'], ['yaml'])
 
-    # Note that check-css no longer runs due to the SCSS conversion.
-    # See #8894 for more details.
-
     # Disabled check for imperative mood until it is stabilized
     if not args.no_gitlint:
         external_linter('commit_messages', ['tools/commit-message-lint'])