It is provided primarily as a browser-based web application accessible through the domain jslint.com, but there are also command-line adaptations.

According to the Free Software Foundation, this previous clause made the original license non-free.

[13][14][15] The main motivation behind the creation of JSHint was to provide a "less opinionated" and "more configurable" way for developers to analyse code.

[24][25][26] In 2015, a comparison published by SitePoint, recommended ESLint above JSLint, JSHint and JSCS.

[27] In 2016, CodeKit also praised ESLint for "finding more issues", being "far more configurable", and being "the industry standard" for JavaScript syntax checkers.