JSLint vs JSHint
Luke Page, March 28th, 2011
In January of this year Douglas Crockford decided that some of the options in JSLint were generally accepted and should always be on. One of those options was eqeqeq, the option to show an error if just two equals was used. For some time JSLint has complained about double equal comparisons against null, 0, undefined [...]
JSLint in Visual Studio Part 2
Luke Page, October 25th, 2010
A while ago I blogged about creating an extension in visual studio 2010 that ran JSLint on files. I started by getting a JavaScript interpreter based on the V8 engine to run JSLint and then just before publishing I discovered someone else had already started an extension. Luckily, that person proved friendly and over the [...]
JSLinting existing JavaScript and eqeqeq
Luke Page, September 27th, 2010
Introduction As I’ve previously mentioned JSLint is a tool by Douglas Crockford that checks code against various rules in order to find code that could potentially be buggy or ambiguous. One such rule is that users should not use two equals (==) but should use three (===). There is an option that turns on whether [...]