use pre-commit hooks

[daviddoji]

I strongly suggest the use of pre-commit hooks (https://pre-commit.com/). It can make a real difference in terms of readibility and correctness in the code.
The bare minimum hooks I suggest are the following:

• pre-commit-hooks (default)
• flake8 -> linting
• black -> code formatting
• isort -> correct ordering of imports
• mypy -> use of type annotations
• jupyter-nb-clear-output -> remove output of an executed notebook

You can find a working example in one of my public repos at https://git.elnota.space/daviddoji/Advent_of_code/src/branch/master/.pre-commit-config.yaml

[steinnymir]

This is a great suggestion! We are much in need of simple ways to check on our coding style and consistency.

@zainsohail04 can you look into this?

[zain-sohail]

Thanks for your suggestion, David. I have recently been using some of the stuff locally but I didn't use pre-commit hooks before so definitely going to look into it.
I converted this issue to a discussion as this is a more relevant place for it :)

[daviddoji]

Let me know if you have any questions. I'll be happy to help ;)

[rettigl]

We are very happy for suggestions like this!

[zain-sohail]

Since this has already been implemented, closing this discussion.