JSHint vs RocketCake
When comparing JSHint vs RocketCake, the Slant community recommends RocketCake for most people. In the question“What are the best tools for front-end JavaScript development?” RocketCake is ranked 4th while JSHint is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose RocketCake is:
You can work offline as RocketCake is an installable Windows or Mac application. It's also possible to publish on a local disk first before uploading to a webserver.
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Pros
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.
Pro Comes with support for many librariers
JSHint supports libraries like QUnit, NodeJS, jQuery, Mocha out of the box.
Pro Basic ES6 support
Basic ES6 support is included.
Pro Offline
You can work offline as RocketCake is an installable Windows or Mac application.
It's also possible to publish on a local disk first before uploading to a webserver.
Pro Wysiwyg
No need for coding.
Pro Mobile support
Support for e.g. iPhone 8, iPhone 7+, iPhone 8+, iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+, LG G4, LG G5.
Pro PHP and ASP support
It's possible to use PHP or ASP to create dynamic websites.
Pro Templates
15 free templates to choose from.
Cons
Con No way to support ESnext
There's no support for ESnext available.
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.