Javascript Coding Standards - Vim, Syntastic and JSHint

Install Syntastic Vim Syntax Checker

ZOMG It's Syntastic

Syntastic is a syntax checking plugin that runs files through external syntax checkers. This can be done on demand, or automatically as files are saved and opened.

Intall Syntastic via Bundle.

‘Vim Sytastic Installation’

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic.git
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Install NodeJS

‘NodeJS Installation’

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties python g++ make
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs

Source: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager

Install The Node Package Manager

‘Node Package Manager Installation’

curl https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
install npm@latest
fetching: http://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-1.3.4.tgz

uw@uw:~/.vim/bundle$ node --version
v0.10.13
uw@uw:~/.vim/bundle$ npm --version
1.3.4

Install JSHint

‘JSHint Installation’

uw@uw:~/.vim/bundle$ sudo npm install jshint -g
jshint@2.1.4 /usr/lib/node_modules/jshint
├── console-browserify@0.1.6
├── underscore@1.4.4
├── shelljs@0.1.4
├── minimatch@0.2.12 (sigmund@1.0.0, lru-cache@2.3.0)
└── cli@0.4.4-2 (glob@3.2.3)
uw@uw:~/.vim/bundle$