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JSLint vs SideBar Enhancements

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When comparing JSLint vs SideBar Enhancements, the Slant community recommends SideBar Enhancements for most people. In the question“What are the best plugins for Sublime Text?” SideBar Enhancements is ranked 2nd while JSLint is ranked 18th.

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Pros

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.

Pro
No setup required

JSLint comes preconfigured and ready to be used.

Pro
Adds goodness to context of clicks

Pro
Adds a ton of functionality to the sidebar

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Clipboard
Open in browser
Copy the content of a file as data:uri base64
Close, move, open and restore buffers affected by a rename/move command
Copy as tags img/a/script/style
Duplicate
Preference to control if a buffer should be closed when affected by a deletion operation
Allows to display "file modified date" and "file size" on statusbar

Cons

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.

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.