Question

I am using Chirpy (http://chirpy.codeplex.com/) inside Visual Studio 2010 and I’ve got JSHint running. The problem is, I don’t know how to set the options for JSHint, or even to see what options are on by default.

I tried the inline syntax (see below) but Chirpy seems to ignore that. Does anyone know how to set the options?

/*jshint evil: true, boss: true */

Answer 1

I am slightly embarrassed but also pleased to say that the inline syntax does work. However because of the default options it is hard to tell.

I read through most of the Chirpy code base as well as the code base for UglifyJS to figure out that Chirpy just sets all the values for the options to false. This means it doesn’t require much of your JavaScript code.

To turn on the strictest JSHint options, using this at the top of your JS file:

/*jshint bitwise: true, curly: true, eqeqeq: true, immed: true, newcap: true, 
noarg: true, noempty: true, nonew: true, nomen: true, onevar: true, 
plusplus: true, regexp: true, undef: true, strict: true, white: true */

Note, you cannot put a space between /* and jshint. Chirpy will ignore it if you do.