Unable to read ".jshintrc" file about grunt-contrib-jshint HOT 3 CLOSED

After digging into it for a bit, I was finally able to get a config that worked for me. I think that this is more of a documentation issue for the sites pushing new users to install this tool-chain without really going over the details needed to be able to deploy a site.

Here's what I ended up with for a .jshintrc file:

{
"node": true,
"browser": true,
"bitwise": true,
"camelcase": false,
"curly": false,
"eqeqeq": true,
"immed": true,
"latedef": true,
"newcap": true,
"noarg": true,
"quotmark": "single",
"regexp": true,
"undef": true,
"unused": false,
"strict": false,
"trailing": false,
"smarttabs": true,
"globals":{"angular": false,"confirm":false,"CryptoJS":false}
}

I've probably turned off more than was necessary, but without much direction, I just needed something that would work.

from grunt-contrib-jshint.

The output shows that your config appears to be looking for a .jshintrc file in the root of your project, where your Gruntfile is, but it can not find it, hence the ENOENT error.

The fix would be to either place a global .jshintrc in your project's root, reference one of the dozen as your global in your default task configuration, or split up your jshint task configuration so that different directories are configured with the appropriate jshintrcs, eg

jshint : {
  dir1 : {
    src : 'app/dir1/**/*.js',
    options : {
      jshintrc : 'app/dir1/.jshintrc'
    }
  },
  dir2 : {
    src : 'app/dir2/**/*.js',
    options : {
      jshintrc : 'app/dir2/.jshintrc'
    }
  }
}

from grunt-contrib-jshint.

Hmm, ok, I'll give this a shot. I am really unclear as to what's supposed to have a .jshintrc file and what's not, and if there's one missing, what it is supposed to look like.

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