---
title: Hound Reviews JavaScript For Style Violations
teaser: |
  In addition to Ruby and CoffeeScript,
  Hound now reviews JavaScript code for style violations using JSHint.
tags: web,hound,javascript,ruby
author: Scott Albertson
published_on: 2014-10-02
---

Five months ago, we announced [Hound][hound],
a hosted service that reviews code for style violations
and comments about them on your GitHub pull requests.
Since then, over 3,000 users have signed up and used Hound
to review code over 150,000 times.

Today, we're pleased to announce that
Hound can review JavaScript code in addition to Ruby and CoffeeScript code.

![Screenshot of Hound reviewing JavaScript file](https://images.thoughtbot.com/hound/javascript-example.png)

## Configuration

By default, JavaScript is disabled for your repos.

You can enable or disable JavaScript,
or reference your own [config], by editing
`.hound.yml` in your repo.

[config]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/hound/blob/master/config/style_guides/javascript.json

Example `.hound.yml`:

```yaml
java_script:
  enabled: true
  config_file: config/javascript.json
```

To use Hound's [JavaScript defaults] but still control which languages are enabled:

[JavaScript defaults]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/hound/blob/master/config/style_guides/javascript.json

```yaml
java_script:
  enabled: true
```

Special thanks to the maintainers of [jshintrb] for providing a nice Ruby interface
to JSHint.

[jshintrb]: https://github.com/stereobooster/jshintrb

## Let Hound Guard Your Repo

Hound is still very young.
We're eager for your feedback on the service.
It is free for public repos, and $12 per month per private repo.

[Try Hound today][hound]!

[hound]: https://houndci.com/?utm_source=giantrobotsblog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=javascript-announcement