Danger has been in the works since 2015, in that time there’s been two complete implementations of the idea. Why two? Well, that’s a question answered in the blog post on the Artsy blog here.
It’s understandable if you are not in a Ruby or JavaScript context it can be a bit hard to decide which version of Danger you should use. Therefore this document is a high-level overview of the differences between them.
Danger on Ruby is more mature, has a solid plugin eco-system and is very stable. It supports Ruby 2.0 and above, and will likely work on any CI setup without additional work.
The project is on version 5.x with about a hundred releases, that’s a lot of battle testing. I consider it in a great place and is unlikely to have breaking changes from this point onwards. The GitHub issues to number of downloads is really healthy too. Almost 10 million downloads now and a new issue maybe once a week.
I have no intention of ever deprecating Danger Ruby. If you’re using it today, you’re fine to stay that way.
In re-creating Danger in JavaScript, I built it with a larger scale in mind.
Danger JS has its own plugin eco-system and is doing a bunch of things the Ruby version cannot (like Peril and separate language implementations). Danger JavaScript probably has everything you need.
If you’re working in a Node environment this is definitely the right choice.
FWIW, I find it easier to work with JavaScript Dangerfiles because they have TypeScript annotations.
You may notice that there are now a suite of other language implementations on the homepage. The JavaScript implementation of Danger supports a hand-off system which allows other language ecosystems to flourish by having their own rules in their own languages. Currently Swift is very production-worthy, and Kotlin and Python are getting real close.
