What is the best alternative to ESLint?

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score 6 · Answer 1

JSCS

Top Con

No longer developed

Merged with ESLint https://medium.com/@markelog/jscs-end-of-the-line-bc9bf0b3fdb2 See More

Top Pro

Support for custom reporters

JSCS supports custom reporters, which are very helpful when you want to integrate JSCS with other tools that require a specific writing style. See More

Top Con

Only detects code style violations

JSCS is useful only for enforcing coding styles. As such it cannot detect potential bugs or issues in your code. See More

Top Pro

Several presets available

JSCS needs a configuration file and a preset to start linting your code. But it's not a problem since there are a lot of pre-made presets available in their website. jQuery style, and Google coding style for example are included. See More

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score 17 · Answer 2

JSLint

Top Con

Highly opinionated

JSLint has a very strict, dogmatic ruleset that cannot be changed or warnings turned off. So much so that rarely any code will pass JSLint tests. It's reasonable to evaluate if all warning are worth changing. See More

Top Pro

Enforces a very high standard

Since it's relatively old (it was made in 2002) and made by Douglas Crockford, considered a JavaScript God by many JavaScript programmers. It was created to enforce what in Crockford's experience are the good parts of JavaScript. This means that it's considered by many the best way to enforce the highest standards in JavaScript. See More

Top Con

Difficult to know which rule is causing which error

Since you can't edit the rules and it's not programmed in a way to display the rule that's being broken, it's difficult to understand which rule has been broken. See More

Top Pro

No setup required

JSLint comes preconfigured and ready to be used. See More

Top Con

No way to support ESnext

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score 11 · Answer 3

JSHint

Top Con

No way to support ESnext

There's no support for ESnext available. See More

Top Pro

Customizable ruleset

Since it's creation, JSHint was created to be a more configurable version of JSLint (it's actually a fork of JSLint itself). Every rule is configurable through a configuration file. See More

Top Con

Difficult to know which rule is causing an error

Because it does not display the rule name that is being broken, it's difficult to know which rule is actually causing the error. See More

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Comes with support for many librariers

JSHint supports libraries like QUnit, NodeJS, jQuery, Mocha out of the box. See More

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Basic ES6 support

Basic ES6 support is included. See More

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