JSHint and jQuery: '$' is not defined

Question

The following JS:

(function() {
  \"use strict\";

  $(\"#target\").click(function(){
    console.log(\"clicked\");
  });

}());

Yields:

Answer 1

All you need to do is set "jquery": true in your .jshintrc.

Per the JSHint options reference:

jquery

This option defines globals exposed by the jQuery JavaScript library.