Build, test, and share Vale rules — Today, I’m pleased to announce Vale Studio 2.0, a web service for building, testing, and sharing Vale rules. The goal of Vale Studio is to make Vale’s rule-creation process more straightforward by providing a detailed look at how Vale handles markup and prose internally. The Rule Library

Share, sync, and extend Vale-related assets. — The v2.16.0 release of Vale includes a significant, long-awaited feature: the ability to share, sync, and extend Vale configurations across multiple teams and projects. These shareable configurations, called “packages,” are .zip files that contain a .vale.ini file, a StylesPath folder, or both. You include a package by using the new…

Vale Server now works with Gmail, GitHub, Medium, dev.to, WordPress, Confluence, … and more! — When I launched Vale Server last year, supporting browsers and other web-based applications was one of the primary goals. The initial release included support for Chrome, but there were still a lot of details that needed to be figured out. The extension has since been completely re-written to better support…

Client updates, an action re-write, and more LanguageTool integration improvements. — The latest development cycle for Vale Server focused almost entirely on in-editor performance with the specific goal of improving the on-the-fly linting experience. Actions get a re-write The first change you’ll notice in v1.8 is that the action-processing engine has been completely re-written from Python to Go, incorporating many performance enhancements along the way.

A guide to creating regex-based rules for Vale and Vale Server. — Overview In this post, we’ll take a look at the process of writing new rules for Vale (the command-line tool) and Vale Server (the desktop application). The goal for this post is to supplement the existing documentation by covering possible areas of confusion and potential “gotchas.” But first, we need to…

A re-designed Dashboard, including a new rule editor with built-in regex101 integration. — I’m pleased to announce v1.4 of Vale Server today, the fourth major release of Vale’s desktop application. Development for v1.4 was almost entirely focused on improving the Dashboard, including the new Studio page. Vale Studio [beta] One of Vale’s most popular features is its support for YAML-based rules, which allow for a high…

LanguageTool, Rule Actions, updated clients, and more! The past few months have been quite busy in terms of Vale and Vale Server development, I’ve released Vale v2.0.0-beta, Vale Server v1.2, and new versions of the Atom, Sublime Text, and Visual Studio Code clients. Today I’m here to announce yet another…

OpenAPI Specification files provide machine-readable (JSON or YAML) descriptions of APIs and often contain snippets of text suitable for linting. The problem is that the target text can be hard to reach from a linting perspective. For instance, consider the following basic example: As you can see above, the…

An introduction to common Vale (Server) workflows and use cases. — With Vale rapidly approaching v2.0.0 and the release of the Vale Server desktop app, the amount of possible workflows and use cases is at an all-time high. For the sake of this post, we’ll be focusing on the two basic classes of use cases: Remotely: Remote usage typically involves running…