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Asked: 2026-05-21T23:16:51+00:00

I’m new to JS & Vim. Which plugins would help me to write Javascript

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I’m new to JS & Vim. Which plugins would help me to write Javascript code?

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    Syntax Checking / Linting

    There is a very easy way to integrate JSLint or the community-driven jshint.com (which is much better IMO) with Vim using the Syntastic Vim plugin. See my other post for more info.

    Source-Code browsing / Tag-list

    There’s also a very neat way to add tag-listing using Mozilla’s DoctorJS (formerly jsctags), which is also used in Cloud9 IDE‘s Ace online editor.

    1. Install the following packages using your favorite package-manager (Ubuntu’s apt-get, Mac’s home brew, etc.):
      1. exuberant-ctags
    • NOTE: After installing make sure running ctags actually runs exuberant-ctags and not the OS’s preinstalled ctags. You can find out by executing ctags --version.
      2. node (Node.js)
    1. Clone DoctorJS from github: git clone https://github.com/mozilla/doctorjs.git
    2. Go inside DoctorJS dir and make install (You’ll also need the make app installed, but this is very basic).
    • There’re some bugs with installing the plugin, make install doesn’t do the trick for the moment. For now I just add the repo’s bin/ dir to my $PATH instead. See DoctorJS’s GitHub and issues pages for more info.
    1. Install the TagBar Vim plugin (NOTE: It’s TagBar, not the old infamous TagList!).
    2. PROFIT. 🙂

    New Project – Tern.js

    DoctorJS is currently dead. There’s a new promising project called tern.js. It’s currently in early beta, and should eventually replace it.

    There is a project ramitos/jsctags which uses tern as its engine. Just npm install -g it, and tagbar will automatically use it for javascript files.

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