JShint warning: jQuery plugin marked incorrectly 'defined but never used' in AMD

Question

JSHint is throwing a "jQueryPlugin is defined but never used" error on the declaration of jQueryPlugin.

How do I tell JSHint to either ignore this specific error or define jQueryPlugin in a way JSHint understands.

    define([
        'jquery',
        'underscore',
        'backbone',
        'some-jquery-plugin'
    ], function ($, _, Backbone, jQueryPlugin) //here is the error
    {
        'use strict';
        var someView = Backbone.View.extend(
        {
            someFunction: function ()
            {
                $('#a-css-id').jQueryPlugin();
            },
        });
        return someView;
    });

Things I've tried

/* exported jQueryPlugin */ exports statement at top of file dose not work for this (been suggested in other questions)

/* jshint unused:false*/ works, but makes the rule global in the file (2000+ lines of code) so I don't see it as a workable solution.

/* jshint ignore:line */ is apparently not enabled in build system - so I cant commit this change (grunt-contrib-jshint)

Answer 1

The simplest solution would be to just remove jQueryPlugin from the list of arguments:

define([
        'jquery',
        'underscore',
        'backbone',
        'some-jquery-plugin'
    ], function ($, _, Backbone) 
    {

Two reasons:

1. You do not use that value. (You use $(...).jQueryPlugin, which is different.)

2. I've loaded many jQuery plugins with RequireJS and never encountered any plugin that returned a useful value as a module. They all install themselves on $ and typically return undefined as their module value.