Question

I’ve understood that JSLint is a great tool for JavaScript development but I’ve some dark points in my global comprehension of this.

1. How to use it inside my development environment ? In other words how and when do you run JSLint against your code ? I’ve seen the Aptana integration but it seems that it doesn’t take into account statements like :

   /* jslint nomen: false */
   

2. How to work correctly in a client side development environment ? I want JSLint to feel good when parsing calls including objects like “console”, “$” or “JQuery”.

3. How to use it on a whole project with multiple files (with no import statement inside of them) ?

I’ve read to much statement suggesting to copy paste on jslint to sleep correctly, so any answer consisting of configuring the online JSLint form would be considered as irrelevant.

Answer 1

I’m sorry to write this answer which is not really one. The best solution I’ve found is to use JSHint which is a concurrent to JSLint with some nice extra features :

• Installation is made easy through NPM with command like (also works for JSLint), NPM is required :

  npm install -g jshint
  

• Execution is made easy against a lot of file (doesn’t work for JSLint) :

  jshint mycodedirectory
  

• Configuration is possible through the –config options, config files look like :

  {
    "curly":true,
    "eqeqeq": true,
    "immed": true,
    "bitwise": true,
    "newcap": true,
    "noempty": true,
    "unused": true,
    "camelcase":true,
    "undef": true,
    "strict": true,
    "trailing": true,
    "maxparams": 7,
    "maxdepth": 5,
    "maxstatements": 50,
    "maxcomplexity": 13
  }
  

This solution works for both browser and server code, it’s IDE and OS independent, it can be easily integrated in continuous integration process.