How to do JSLint in Vim

Asked 2009-01-23T16:10:29.470

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I spend my days in vim, currently writing a lot of JavaScript. I've been trying to find a way to integrate JSLint or something similar into vim to improve my coding. Has anyone managed to do something like this?

I tried this: Javascript Syntax Checking From Vim, unfortunately the output is very crude.

javascript vim lint

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The best-practice way IMO is:

Install Syntastic Vim plugin - Best syntax-checker around for plenty of languages, plus it integrates with Vim's location-list (==quickfix) window.

I recommend cloning from the GitHub repo and installing using a plugin manager like Vundle or Pathogen, since it's more frequently updated.

Choose one of the two options below:

JSLint

Install jsl (JSLint executable) using your favorite package manager (Ubuntu's apt-get, Mac's home brew, etc.).

Community-driven jshint.com (better than JSLint)

Install node.js using your favorite package manager.
Install Node Package Manager: 'curl https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh' EDIT: npm IS PART OF node.js NOW
- See http://npmjs.org for more info.
Install jshint globally: 'npm install jshint -g'
Put your jshint config file in your $HOME dir: '~/.jshintrc'
- Here's JSHint-Node's example configuration file, they pulled from mine and added more stuff.
- answered 2011-05-05T06:22:01.220

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