Does JSHint support async/await?

Question

I\'m using JSHint for the JavaScript project (with the Visual Studio Code). And in this project I use async / await, which JSHint highlights as errors.

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Answer 1

Does jshint support async/await yet?

No, not yet as of early 2017.

It appears that it does not yet support async/await. Folks working on jsHint have decided not to support async/await until standards were in a late stage (having apparently been burned previously by supporting things too early when they were still changing) - though implementations already exist (Babel, nodejs, etc...).

If you follow this jsHint open issue thread, it is still an open issue as of recent comments 7 and 11 days ago.

And if not, are there any workarounds?

As of July 2017, there appears to be a fork of the jsHint code called jshint-esnext that has support for async/await here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jshint-esnext.