How to configure Syntastic with JSHint?

Question

How to use the Syntastic Vim plugin with JSHint to validate JavaScript code?

Environment:

• Ubuntu 11.04
• VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3

What I

Answer 1

I struggled with this issue for days and SyntasticInfo would not recognize jshint as an available checker even after i added let g:syntastic_javascript_checkers['jshint'] to my .vimrc. I am using Ubuntu 15.04 and I followed this tutorial to install nvm, nodejs, and jshint on Ubuntu. After I did that I discovered that if I removed the line filetype plugin indent on from my .vimrc then opened a .js file everything worked perfectly! To summarize...

1. follow the tutorial linked above
2. add ~/.nvm//bin to path in .bashrc
3. remove filetype plugin indent on from .vimrc
4. add let g:syntastic_javascript_checkers['jshint'] to .vimrc
5. :so % inside vim
6. open a .js file
7. add filetype plugin indent on back to your .vimrc
8. everything magically works now