Trunk
The all-in-one toolkit for scalable code quality.
Overview
Trunk is primarily a developer tool designed to improve code quality and consistency. It provides a unified way to manage linters, formatters, and security checkers. While not a visual design version control tool, it is highly relevant for managing code-based design assets like design tokens (JSON, CSS), SVG icons, and infrastructure-as-code for design systems. It versions the tools and their configurations, ensuring every developer and CI run uses the exact same standards.
✨ Key Features
- Unified linter, formatter, and security checker
- Hermetic, versioned management of 100+ tools
- Pre-commit hooks and CI integration
- Caching for fast local and CI runs
- Monorepo support
- Detects and ignores pre-existing issues ('Hold the line' mode)
- Extensible with custom plugins
🎯 Key Differentiators
- All-in-one tool that manages installation, versioning, and execution of many linters
- High-performance, written in C++
- 'Hold the line' feature makes it easy to adopt in existing large repositories
Unique Value: Provides a single, versioned, and scalable way to enforce consistency and quality for any code-based asset, including those that are part of a design system.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Used by engineering teams at companies like Uber and Stripe to maintain high code quality across large codebases.
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Managing binary design files like .sketch, .fig, or .psd
- Teams looking for a visual diffing or GUI-based version control system
🏆 Alternatives
Unlike simple pre-commit frameworks, Trunk manages the toolchains themselves, ensuring that every developer and CI system runs the exact same version of a tool, eliminating 'works on my machine' issues for code quality.
💻 Platforms
✅ Offline Mode Available
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Enterprise tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
✓ 14-day free trial
Free tier: Free for individuals, open source projects, and teams up to 5 users.
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