diff --git a/.gitlab/CODEOWNERS b/.gitlab/CODEOWNERS
index 189677dfe0..e836f60e10 100644
--- a/.gitlab/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.gitlab/CODEOWNERS
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
 /.github/workflows/                   @esp-idf-codeowners/ci
 /.gitlab-ci.yml                       @esp-idf-codeowners/ci
 /.gitlab/ci/                          @esp-idf-codeowners/ci
+/.gitlab/dangerfile.js                @esp-idf-codeowners/ci @esp-idf-codeowners/tools
 /.pre-commit-config.yaml              @esp-idf-codeowners/ci
 /.readthedocs.yml                     @esp-idf-codeowners/docs
 /CMakeLists.txt                       @esp-idf-codeowners/build-config
diff --git a/.gitlab/ci/pre_check.yml b/.gitlab/ci/pre_check.yml
index 1ba4e0f3c9..1df0ed62d0 100644
--- a/.gitlab/ci/pre_check.yml
+++ b/.gitlab/ci/pre_check.yml
@@ -25,6 +25,24 @@ check_pre_commit_MR:
   script:
     - python ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/tools/ci/ci_get_mr_info.py files ${CI_MERGE_REQUEST_SOURCE_BRANCH_NAME} | xargs pre-commit run --files
 
+check_MR_style_dangerjs:
+  extends:
+    - .pre_check_template
+  image: node:14.18.0-alpine3.14
+  variables:
+    DANGER_GITLAB_API_TOKEN: ${ESPCI_TOKEN}
+    DANGER_GITLAB_HOST: ${GITLAB_HTTP_SERVER}
+    DANGER_GITLAB_API_BASE_URL: ${GITLAB_HTTP_SERVER}/api/v4
+  before_script:
+    - echo "Skip all before scripts"
+  script:
+    - set +e
+    - hash danger 2>/dev/null && echo "use cache" || yarn global add danger@11.2.3 --silent --skip-integrity-check --no-progress --cache-folder .yarn --global-folder .yarn-cache
+    - set -e
+    - danger ci --dangerfile=".gitlab/dangerfile.js" --failOnErrors -v
+  rules:
+    - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "merge_request_event"'
+
 check_version:
   # Don't run this for feature/bugfix branches, so that it is possible to modify
   # esp_idf_version.h in a branch before tagging the next version.
diff --git a/.gitlab/dangerfile.js b/.gitlab/dangerfile.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d9d58ed379
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitlab/dangerfile.js
@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+import { danger, warn, message } from "danger"
+
+/**
+ * Check if MR Title contains prefix "Draft: ... or "WIP: ...".
+ *
+ * @dangerjs WARN
+*/
+function checkMrTitle() {
+    const mrTitle = danger.gitlab.mr.title
+
+    if (mrTitle.toUpperCase().includes("WIP") || mrTitle.toUpperCase().includes("DRAFT")) {
+        return warn("Please remove the `WIP:`/`Draft:` prefix from the MR name before merging this MR.");
+    }
+}
+checkMrTitle();
+
+
+/**
+ * Check if MR Description is longer than 50 characters".
+ *
+ * @dangerjs WARN
+ */
+function checkMrDescription() {
+    const shortMrDescriptionThreshold = 50;// MR description is considered too short below this number of characters
+    const mrDescription = danger.gitlab.mr.description
+
+    if (mrDescription.length < shortMrDescriptionThreshold) {
+        return warn("The MR description looks very brief, please check if more details can be added.");
+    }
+}
+checkMrDescription();
+
+
+/**
+ * Check if MR Description contains mandatory section "Release notes"
+ *
+ * #TODO: this simple logic will be improved in future MRs - Jira IDF-6852
+ *
+ * @dangerjs WARN
+ */
+function checkMrReleaseNotes() {
+    const mrDescription = danger.gitlab.mr.description
+
+    if (!mrDescription.toUpperCase().includes("## Release notes".toUpperCase())) {
+        return warn("Please update the MR description, the mandatory section `Release Notes` seems to be missing.");
+    }
+}
+checkMrReleaseNotes();
+
+
+/**
+ * Check if MR Description contains JIRA issues references
+ *
+ * Check if the associated GitHub Jira ticket has a GitHub closure reference in the commit message.
+ *
+ * #TODO: this simple logic will be improved in future MRs - Jira IDF-6854
+ *
+ * @dangerjs WARN
+ */
+function checkMrJiraLinks() {
+    const mrDescription = danger.gitlab.mr.description
+    const mrCommitMessages = danger.gitlab.commits.map(commit => commit.message);
+
+    const matchBlockRelated = mrDescription.match(/\#\# Related.*$/s); // Match MR description starting with line ## Related till the end of MR description
+    const testJiraLabels = /[A-Z]+-[0-9]+/.test(matchBlockRelated ? matchBlockRelated[0] : ''); // Test if pattern of Jira label "JIRA-1234" or "RDT-311" is in section Related
+    const ghIssueTicket = /IDFGH-[0-9]+/.test(matchBlockRelated ? matchBlockRelated[0] : ''); // Check if there is JIRA link starts with "IDFGH-*" in MR description, section "Related"
+
+    if (!mrDescription.toUpperCase().includes("## RELATED") || !testJiraLabels) { // Missing section "Related" or missing links to JIRA tickets
+        return warn("Please add links to JIRA issues to the MR description section `Related`.");
+
+    } else if (ghIssueTicket) { // Found JIRA ticket linked GitHub issue
+        if (!mrCommitMessages.includes(/Closes https:\/\/github\.com\/espressif\/esp-idf\/issues\/[0-9]+/)) {  // Commit message does not contain a link to close the issue on GitHub
+            return warn("Please add GitHub issue closing link `Closes https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/issues/<github-issue-number>` to the commit message.");
+        }
+    }
+}
+checkMrJiraLinks();
+
+
+/**
+ * Check if MR has not an excessive numbers of commits (if squashed)
+ *
+ * #TODO: this simple logic will be improved in future MRs - Jira IDF-6856.
+ *
+ * @dangerjs INFO
+ */
+function checkMrTooManyCommits() {
+    const tooManyCommitThreshold = 5  // above this number of commits, squash is recommended
+    const mrCommits = danger.gitlab.commits
+
+    if (mrCommits.length > tooManyCommitThreshold) {
+        return message(`You might consider squashing your ${mrCommits.length} commits (simplifying branch history).`);
+    }
+}
+checkMrTooManyCommits();
+
+
+/**
+ * Check commit message are descriptive enough (longer that 10 characters)
+ * @dangerjs WARN
+ */
+function checkMrCommitMessagesLength() {
+    const shortCommitMessageThreshold = 10;// commit message is considered too short below this number of characters
+    const mrCommit = danger.gitlab.commits
+
+    let shortCommitMessages = [];
+    for (let i = 0; i < mrCommit.length; i++) {
+        const commitMessage = mrCommit[i].message;
+
+        if (commitMessage.length < shortCommitMessageThreshold) {
+            shortCommitMessages.push(`- commit message: ${commitMessage}`);
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (shortCommitMessages.length) {
+        warn(`Some of your commit messages may not be sufficiently descriptive (are shorter than ${shortCommitMessageThreshold} characters):
+        \n${shortCommitMessages.join("")}
+        \nYou might consider squashing commits (simplifying branch history) or updating those short commit messages.`);
+    }
+}
+checkMrCommitMessagesLength();
+
+
+/**
+ * Check if MR is too large (more than 1000 lines of changes)
+ *
+ * @dangerjs INFO
+ */
+function checkMrIsTooLarge() {
+    const bigMrLinesOfCodeThreshold = 1000
+
+    danger.git.linesOfCode()
+        .then((totalLines) => {
+            if (totalLines > bigMrLinesOfCodeThreshold) {
+                return message(`This MR seems to be quiet large (total lines of code: ${totalLines}), you might consider splitting it into smaller MRs`);
+            }
+        });
+}
+checkMrIsTooLarge();
+
+
+/**
+ * Check if documentation needs translation labels
+ *
+ * #TODO: this simple logic will be improved in future MRs - Jira IDF-6855.
+ *
+ * @dangerjs WARN
+ */
+function checkMrNeedsTranlation() {
+    const mrLabels = danger.gitlab.mr.labels
+    const changesInDocsEN = /docs\/en/.test(danger.git.modified_files ? danger.git.modified_files[0] : ''); // Test if changes in directory "docs/EN"
+    const changesInDocsCH = /docs\/zh_CN/.test(danger.git.modified_files ? danger.git.modified_files[0] : ''); // Test if changes in directory "docs/CH"
+
+    // Only English docs has been changed
+    if (changesInDocsEN && !changesInDocsCH) {
+        if (!mrLabels.includes("needs translation: CN")) {
+            return warn("The updated documentation will need to be translated into Chinese, please add the MR label `needs translation: CN`");
+        }
+    }
+    // Only Chineese docs has been changed
+    if (!changesInDocsEN && changesInDocsCH) {
+        if (!mrLabels.includes("needs translation: EN")) {
+            return warn("The updated documentation will need to be translated into English, please add the MR label `needs translation: EN`");
+        }
+    }
+}
+checkMrNeedsTranlation();
+
+/**
+ * Add a link to manual retry a DangerJS job (without committing to the repository)
+ *
+ * @dangerjs MARKDOWN
+ */
+function addRetryLink() {
+    const retryLink = `${process.env.DANGER_GITLAB_HOST}/${process.env.CI_PROJECT_PATH}/-/jobs/${process.env.CI_JOB_ID}`
+    return markdown(`***\n#### :repeat: If you want to run these checks again, please retry this [DangerJS job](${retryLink})\n***`);
+}
+addRetryLink();