I was setting up flymake-mode with JSLint, and thinking it was pretty great, but that rhino start-up cost is pretty big for a flymake application. If we just kept JSLint running, wouldn't that be a lot faster?
Then I caught a talk on the node.js server, and saw a way.
The jslint.curl script depends on curl, but you can easily
reproduce it with any other http client.
$ node lintnode/app.js --port 8000 & $ lintnode/jslint.curl myfilthycode.js
The exit code of jslint.curl is currently not nearly as relevant
as the output on standard out. The output should be fully compatible
with JSLint's Rhino version.
See the included flymake-jslint.el.
jslint_port may be passed on the node command line with the
--port parameter. It defaults to 8000.
jslint_options is currently only configurable by editing
app.js. For documentation on JSLint's options, see JSLint
options.
This project is hosted at github, which has a wiki and an issue tracker:
http://github.com/keturn/lintnode
This software is distributed under the same license as JSLint, which looks like the MIT License with one additional clause:
The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.