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Origami vs JSLint

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When comparing Origami vs JSLint, the Slant community recommends JSLint for most people. In the question“What are the best plugins for Sublime Text?” JSLint is ranked 18th while Origami is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose JSLint is:

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.

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Pros

Pro
Completely free

Origami is offered to the public completely free, no monthly plans, no upfront cost whatsoever.

Pro
Powerful animations and interactions

Origami was actually built to help Facebook designers work on Paper, one of Facebook's latest apps. Every animation that is coded into Origami was first made for Paper. It uses powerful 3D effects and some of the most advanced features for scrolling, tapping and swiping to create a faithful and interactive prototype.

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Native testing

Developers can develop their prototypes with origami through their desktops, but the testing itself is done on the native devices.

Pro
No code required

Origami is built by designers for designers. As such, it allows for quick prototyping without writing a single line of code.

Pro
Open source

Origami is free and open source and it is hosted on GitHub.

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Like only-Mac-integration! Great app! Thank you.

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Enforces a very high standard

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No setup required

JSLint comes preconfigured and ready to be used.

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Cons

Con
Steep learning curve

Origami is a toolkit for Quartz Composer, and unfortunately the learning curve for it is quite steep. Especially for beginners.

Con
Mac only

Since Origami is not an app in and on itself, but a plugin for Quartz Composer, which is built by Apple. Therefore, Origami is only available for Mac and for a developer to download and use it, they need to register as an Apple Developer.

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Mouse driven interactions

There's no way to directly test the tactile interface.

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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.

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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.