grunt-jsvalidate

This is a Grunt task to validate JavaScript source. It uses Esprima to look for possible syntax errors.

Features

Grunt has a built-in task to lint JavaScript source. This validator task complements the linter by offering the following features:

• It is extremely fast. Validating three.js (800 KB source) takes less than a second on a modern machine.
• It looks only for syntax errors, it does not care about coding style at all.
• It handles generated files as the result of minification or compilation (CoffeeScript, Dart, TypeScript, etc).
• It would try to be tolerant and not give up immediately on the first error, especially for strict mode violations.

Note: The last feature is still a work-in-process, see Esprima issue 130.

How to Use It

First, install the package:

npm install grunt-jsvalidate

Modify your Gruntfile.js file to have the following line somewhere:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-jsvalidate');

If it has been installed correctly, running grunt --help should include jsvalidate in the list of available tasks.

Set the files to be validated, as part of Grunt configuration via the new jsvalidate key. As an example, initConfig in your Gruntfile.js might look like the following fragment:

grunt.initConfig({
  jsvalidate: {
    options:{
      globals: {},
      esprimaOptions: {},
      verbose: false
    },
    targetName:{
      files:{
        src:['<%=jshint.all%>']
      }
    }
  },
  nodeunit: {
    files: ['test/**/*.js']
  }
}

You can specify the files to be validated using the usual file pattern. In the above examples, it will validate every *.js files in the main directory, the lib directory, and the test directory.

Whenever you want the validation task to run, just invoke it using:

grunt jsvalidate

It is recommended to include the validation task in your default:

grunt.registerTask('default', ['jsvalidate', 'jshint', 'nodeunit', 'concat', 'uglify']);

License

Copyright (C) 2012 Ariya Hidayat.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.