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jshint - ignore node_modules directory

I am simply running:

$> jshint .

which looks through my project's directory for .js files, but it is also looking into the node_modules directory which has a shit-ton of .js files that I don't really want to know about.

I might mention that eslint works out of the box to ignore the node_modules directory.

is there a way to run .jshint with a flag to ignore the node_modules directory?

for example

$> jshint . --ignore ./node_modules

?

Solution

  • To ignore the node_modules folder using JSHint, this seems to work best

    in your package.json file at the root of your project:

    {
  "scripts": {
    "jshint": "jshint --exclude 'node_modules/**/*' ."
  }
}

    now you can run this at the command line

    npm run jshint

    and you won't forget the syntax because you have documented it for yourself

    You can also use .jshintignore:

    node_modules/**/*