“alert” is not defined when running www.jshint.com

Question

I fixed this by simply adding var alert; However, is this what I should be doing to get the pesky error message to go away? Here is the fix. Here is the fail

Answer 1

Use .jshintrc file or CTRL + , in VS Code, to edit options for jshint.

in js alert(data.status); or window.alert(data.status);

"window": true,
"alert": true

or best

"devel": true,

{
"esversion": 6,
"browser": true,
"undef": true,
"varstmt": true,
"forin": true,
"unused": true,
"funcscope": true,
"lastsemic": true,
"moz": true,
"jquery": true,
"module": true,
"devel": true,
"globals": {
    "window": true,
    "document": true,
    "console": true,
    "alert": true
}

}