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Bug 411795

Summary:	Switch to JSHint for validation
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Mark Macdonald <mamacdon>
Component:	JS Tools	Assignee:	Mark Macdonald <mamacdon>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	gabriel.luong
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	4.0 M2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Mark Macdonald

2013-06-27 12:14:46 EDT

It seems that even the most recent version of JSLint (running at jslint.com) does not support full ES5 syntax (see bug 376515 comment 9 and 10).

We should move to JSHint for validation, which does support ES5, and has some other nice features as well (like greater control over the validator's strictness).

Comment 1 Mark Macdonald

2013-07-15 15:01:57 EDT

I guess this is a no-go due to the absence of CLA for the JSHint project.

Comment 2 Mark Macdonald

2013-09-26 12:52:23 EDT

WONTFIX

We've obtained approval to use ESLint, which is designed to be easily extended than monolithic linters like JSHint/JSLint. We'll use that in future to improve our JS validation support.