Build-Time Javascript Code Analysis

Abstract

Javascript can be tough to maintain. The bigger is your project, the harder it will be to ensure that everything is ok. Luckily, there are tools to help you with that. One of the recently launched tools is JSHint, a online JavaScript checking tool. The tool is very similar to JSLint, but is designed to be more customizable and community-oriented. JSHint can help you 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. The purpose of this article is to show you how to use jsHint as a build-time solution using wro4j maven plugin.