Project Summary
JSHint is a community-driven tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code and to enforce your team's coding conventions.
It is very flexible so you can easily adjust it to your particular coding guidelines and the environment you expect your code to execute in.
JSHint is a fork of JSLint, the tool written and maintained by Douglas Crockford.
The project originally started as an effort to make a more configurable version of JSLint—the one that doesn't enforce one particular coding style on its users—but then transformed into a separate static analysis tool with its own goals and ideals.
In a Nutshell, jshint...
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took an estimated 21 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2010
ending with its most recent commit over 3 years ago
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