mocha-jshint

mocha-jshint

Run jshint as Mocha tests.

To install in your node.js project as devDependency, run this command, in the root of your project

npm install mocha-jshint --save-dev

usage

Mocha defaults to looking for your test specs in the test folder of your project. Add this file as test/jshint.spec.js in your project, with the following content:

require('mocha-jshint')();

That is it you are done.

To grep only the jshint test, just do

mocha --grep jshint

configuring jshint

In the root of your project you can add a .jshintignore file, where each line is a file or directory for jshint to ignore and not check for errors. (see this project for an example)

At the root of your project you can add a .jshintrc file, that specifies what options you want jshint to run with (see this project for an example)

You can also add a .jshintrc file to any subdirectory of your project, to override the .jshintrc settings in the root. For example in this project I allow some global variables in the test folder. Global variables that are set when I run mocha tests. Global variables that are only allowed to be used, in the .js files in the test folder

Why?

This module was created to:

• Make adding jshint testing to a project using Mocha as easy as possible
• Make it easy to piggyback on all the different Mocha reporters (dot, spec, teamcity etc) for jshint output
• Make sure that you get a click-able link directly to the problem in WebStorm, when jshint fails
• Make sure that there is no unnecessary noise in the test output