Maven plugins to analyze javascript code quality

Question

Javascript code can be tough to maintain.
I am looking for tools that will help me ensure a reasonable quality level.
So far I have found JsUNit, a very nice unit te

Answer 1

Wro4j-maven-plugin provides several goals for static code analysis for JavaScript and CSS resources as well, like: jslint, jshint and csslint

Here is a link to the official Wro4j-maven-plugin documentation.

Answer 2

I've worked on the SweetDEV RIA project which is a Java tag library composed of several "Web 2.0/Ajax/JavaScript" components.

The maven 2 build process includes some in-house plugins which launches JSLint (code verifier), JsMin (code minifier), JsDoc generation (JavaDoc like documentation), JsUnit (unit tests) and Selenium (in browser) tests .

You may take a look on the SweetDEV RIA maven plugins repository.

Answer 3

Sonar and the JavaScript Plugin: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/JavaScript+Plugin

Answer 4

This project looks close:

http://dev.abiss.gr/mvn-jstools/index.html

It generates a report with JsLint. It doesn't look like it hooks into the test phase of the build lifecycle, so I don't think it will reject a build if jslint finds issues (which is what I'd like to do on my projects).