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JSHint, A Static Code Analysis Tool for JavaScript

JSHint is a community-driven tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code and to enforce your team's coding conventions. We made JSHint very flexible so you can easily adjust it to your particular coding guidelines and the environment you expect your code to execute in.

Our goal is to help JavaScript developers write complex programs without worrying about typos and language gotchas.

We believe that static code analysis programs—as well as other code quality tools—are important and beneficial to the JavaScript community and, thus, should not alienate their users.

For general usage information, visit our website: http://jshint.com/.

JSHint Fundraiser / Bug Bounties

We're running a fundraiser for JSHint! If JSHint helps you in your day-to-day development, please consider donating. All money raised on this page will be used as monetary rewards for fixing JSHint bugs and implementing new features. Our hope is to introduce more developers to JSHint hacking and boost its development.

Rules:

  1. All funds (aside from fees) will be used only to fund bounties.
  2. If core team ends up fixing bounty bugs, the reward will be donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
  3. Before marking bugs as fixed, all patches must be reviewed by a core team member.

Thanks!

Reporting a bug

To report a bug simply create a new GitHub Issue and describe your problem or suggestion. We welcome all kind of feedback regarding JSHint including but not limited to:

  • When JSHint doesn't work as expected
  • When JSHint complains about valid JavaScript code that works in all browsers
  • When you simply want a new option or feature

Before reporting a bug look around to see if there are any open or closed tickets that cover your issue. And remember the wisdom: pull request > bug report > tweet.

Installation

You can install JSHint via NPM:

npm install jshint -g

We also provide platform wrappers for Rhino, JavaScriptCore and Windows Script Host. To use them, clone this repo and run our build command:

node make.js

Usage

jshint -h

You can also require JSHint itself as a module.

var jshint = require('jshint');

Note: If you are using npm v1.x be sure to install jshint locally (without the -g flag) or link it globally.

Custom Reporters

Specify a custom reporter module (see example/reporter.js).

--reporter path/to/reporter.js

Use a jslint compatible xml reporter.

--jslint-reporter

Show additional non-error data generated by jshint (unused globals etc).

--show-non-errors

Configuration Options

Note: This behavior described below is very different from versions prior to 0.6.

The CLI uses the default options that come with JSHint. Only one extra option is unique to the CLI version of JSHint: globals allows you to define an object of globals that get ignored for every file.

To have your own configuration apply, there are several methods you can use:

Specify Manually

Setting the --config=/path/to/your/config command line option to specify your own configuration file outside of the directory tree for your project.

Within your Project's Directory Tree

When the CLI is called, and a configuration file isn't specified already, node-jshint will attempt to locate one for you starting in pwd. (or "present working directory") If this does not yield a .jshintrc file, it will move one level up (..) the directory tree all the way up to the filesystem root. If a file is found, it stops immediately and uses that set of configuration.

This setup allows you to set up one configuration file for your entire project. (place it in the root folder) As long as you run jshint from anywhere within your project directory tree, the same configuration file will be used.

Home Directory

If all the methods above do not yield a .jshintrc to use, the last place that will be checked is your user's $HOME directory.

File Extensions

Default extension for files is ".js". If you want to use JSHint with other file extensions (.json), you need to pass this extra extension as an option:

--extra-ext .json

Ignoring Files and Directories

If there is a .jshintignore file in your project's directory tree, (also provided you run jshint from within your project's directory) then any directories or files specified will be skipped over. (behaves just like a .gitignore file)

Note: Pattern matching uses minimatch, with the nocase option. When there is no match, it performs a left side match (when no forward slashes present and path is a directory).

Using JSHint as a library

It is easy to use JSHint as a JavaScript library. Just install the package with NPM and, in your code, import a global JSHINT function:

var JSHINT = require("jshint").JSHINT;

This function takes two parameters. The first parameter is either a string or an array of strings. If it is a string, it will be split on '\n' or '\r'. If it is an array of strings, it is assumed that each string represents one line. The source can be a JavaScript text or a JSON text.

The second parameter is an optional object of options which control the operation of JSHINT. Most of the options are booleans: they are all optional and have a default value of false.

The third parameter is an object of global variables, with keys as names and a boolean value to determine if they are assignable.

If it checks out, JSHINT returns true. Otherwise, it returns false.

If false, you can inspect JSHINT.errors to find out the problems. JSHINT.errors is an array of objects containing these members:

{
  line      : The line (relative to 1) at which the lint was found
  character : The character (relative to 1) at which the lint was found
  reason    : The problem
  evidence  : The text line in which the problem occured
  scope     : The scope of the problem.
  raw       : The raw message before the details were inserted
  a         : The first detail
  b         : The second detail
  c         : The third detail
  d         : The fourth detail
}

If a fatal error was found, a null will be the last element of the JSHINT.errors array.

You can request a data structure which contains JSHint's results.

var myData = JSHINT.data();

It returns a structure with this form:

{
  errors: [
    {
      line       : NUMBER,
      character  : NUMBER,
      reason     : STRING,
      evidence   : STRING
    }
  ],
    functions: [
    name         : STRING,
    line         : NUMBER,
    character    : NUMBER,
    last         : NUMBER,
    lastcharacter: NUMBER,
    param        : [ STRING ],
    closure      : [ STRING ],
    var          : [ STRING ],
    exception    : [ STRING ],
    outer        : [ STRING ],
    unused       : [ STRING ],
    global       : [ STRING ],
    label        : [ STRING ]
  ],
  globals: [
    STRING
  ],
  member: {
    STRING: NUMBER
  },
  unused: [
    {
      name       : STRING,
      line       : NUMBER
    }
  ],
  implieds: [
    {
      name: STRING,
      line: NUMBER
    }
  ],
  urls: [
    STRING
  ],
  json: BOOLEAN
}

Empty array will not be included.

FAQ

How do I turn off "mixed tabs and spaces" warning?

If you're using so-called smart tabs then we have an option smarttabs for you. Otherwise, your solution is to run JSHint with a custom reporter that discards any warnings you don't like. For example, this example reporter discards all warnings about mixed tabs and spaces.

Contributing

Look for a file named CONTRIBUTING.md in this repository. It contains our contributing guidelines. We also have a mailing list.

License

JSHint is distributed under the MIT License. One file and one file only (src/stable/jshint.js) is distributed under the slightly modified MIT License.

Attribution

Core Team members:

Maintainer: Anton Kovalyov

Thank you!

We really appreciate all kind of feedback and contributions. Thanks for using and supporting JSHint!

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