Is JSLint available for offline use?

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Robin Rodricks picture Robin Rodricks · May 7, 2009 · Viewed 14.3k times · Source

I'd like to use JSLint, but I am wary of tools that have access to my unfiltered source code. Is there an offline version or is there another similar tool that does "lint error checking" for JavaScript offline?

Edit: One with a GUI and that shows you a styled list of errors, instead of a command line interface?

Answer

Grant Wagner picture Grant Wagner · May 7, 2009

If you like the JSLint web interface, you can do File > Save Page As... and Save as type: Web Page, complete (in Firefox, doing it in Internet Explorer may be slightly different) to a local folder.

I change the name to jslint.htm to get it under 8.3 with no spaces.

It seems to work when saved locally.

Three things:

  1. This may violate his license, although I leave the Copyright intact and don't modify any of his code, and technically my web browser already created a copy of his site on my local HD, so I'm not sure whether I'm in violation or not and I'm not a lawyer so I'll keep doing this until I get a letter telling me to stop.
  2. The page may somehow still be able to send your code to the Internet, although the chance of it being possible is very remote. That said, the WSH or Rhino versions could probably send the code you submit to the Internet easier than a version in a locally saved web page could (if you're paranoid).
  3. You'll get behind on any bug fixes or updates Douglas does. But the same thing applies to the WSH or Rhino versions if you don't update them regularly.

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