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wsfuller
wsfuller

Reputation: 1840

Unable to run/find JSHint

Brand new to Grunt trying to put together a configuration file and having some difficulties. I'm trying to run JSHint, and the file is unable to be found.

Directory set up is 

./htdocs/[js, css, sass, images, html files]
./build/[]
.node_modules/[grunt,grunt-contrib-compass/watch/htmlmin/uglify, jshint, matchdep]
./Gruntfile.js, package.json

Currently JSHint is installed globally using npm install jshint -g Next running jshint -v returns jshint v2.6.3

So that's telling me it's installed plus it's in my node_modules directory

My Gruntfile.js reads as 

module.exports = function(grunt) {
var globalConfig = {
    src: 'htdocs',
    dest: 'build'
};
grunt.initConfig({
    pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
    globalConfig: globalConfig,
    // CONFIG ===================================/
    watch: {
        css: {
            files: ['**/*.scss'],
            tasks: ['compass']
        },
        scripts: {
            files: ['**/*.js'],
            tasks: ['jshint'],
            options: {
                spawn: false
            }
        }
    },
    compass: {
        options: {
            sassDir: '<%= globalConfig.src  %>/sass',
            cssDir:  '<%= globalConfig.dest  %>/css'
        },
        dev: {}
    }
});
// DEPENDENT PLUGINS =========================/
require('matchdep').filterDev('grunt-*').forEach(grunt.loadNpmTasks);
// TASKS =====================================/
grunt.registerTask('default', ['watch','jshint']);

}

package.json file:

{
 "name": "Demo",
 "version": "1.0.0",
 "description": "Optimized template test",
 "main": "index.js",
 "scripts": {
   "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
 },
 "author": "user",
 "license": "ISC",
 "devDependencies": {
  "grunt": "^0.4.5",
  "grunt-contrib-compass": "^1.0.1",
  "grunt-contrib-htmlmin": "^0.4.0",
  "grunt-contrib-uglify": "^0.8.0",
  "grunt-contrib-watch": "^0.6.1",
  "matchdep": "^0.3.0"
},
"dependencies": {
  "grunt": "^0.4.5"
},
"keywords": [
  "DemoOne"
]
}

Now every time I run grunt I'm getting Error: Task "jshint" not found I've tried putting "jshint": "^2.6.3" inside the "devDependencies" array but that didn't seem to help either. Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 182

Answers (1)

juunas
juunas

Reputation: 58898

It is saying a task cannot be found, not the jshint executable.

You need to define the Grunt task like in the documentation:

// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
  jshint: {
    all: ['Gruntfile.js', 'lib/**/*.js', 'test/**/*.js']
  }
});

EDIT: And of course you need to have grunt-contrib-jshint in your package.json as well.

Upvotes: 1

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