append globals to consuming applications .jshint file

Question

I am writing an addon that wraps a third party library that uses globals and exporting them as es6 modules export default someGlobal. The problem is that the consuming applications still sees the globals and complain during unit tests.

1. Is there a way I can insert these globals into the consuming applications .jshint file via a blurprint?

2. Is there a better way of exporting globals to es6 modules without actually modifying the third party code?

Answer 1

I found a way to achieve this using AMD modules.

// vendor/shims.js

window.DefaultGlobal = 'Hello';
window.AnotherGlobal = 'World'; 

//Shim as AMD module
define('YOUR_NAMESPACE', [], function() {
  'use strict';

  return {
    default: DefaultGlobal, //same as 'export default var DefaultGlobal = 'Hello';'
    AnotherGlobal: AnotherGlobal //same as 'export var AnotherGlobal = 'World'; '
  };
});

Then you can access it via

import {DefaultGlobal, AnotherGlobal} from 'YOUR_NAMESPACE';