A Comparison of JavaScript Linting Tools

[Paul_Wilkins]

@jhartikainen

Well I didn’t really see anything on what problems tabs cause, or what problems white space around argument names cause.

One of the reasons is:

Use of tabs should be avoided because (as of this writing in the 21st Century) there still is not a standard for the placement of tabstops.

There are also issues in regard to a consistant layout, and that the default tab stop size is just too large. While it’s possible for custom tab stops to be configured, it still doesn’t help to provide consistency in other places.

@jhartikainen

A global configuration. The example you give with the comment is local only to a single file, therefore not very practical in larger projects.

I hope that you are not just being difficult now, and trust that you really are interested in some answers here.

Sublime Text for example has config files for jslint, both default ones and custom user config files too.

There are also jslint configs for when using grunt, and other systems that can be used to customise it for your build process.