diff --git a/.jshintrc b/.jshintrc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ef54d227
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.jshintrc
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{
+    "browser": true,
+    "curly": true,
+    "eqeqeq": false,
+    "loopfunc": false,
+    "noarg": true,
+    "trailing": true,
+    "undef": true,
+    "unused": true,
+
+    "globals": {
+        "OpenSeadragon": true
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Gruntfile.js b/Gruntfile.js
index c568ccce..9e34ccd5 100644
--- a/Gruntfile.js
+++ b/Gruntfile.js
@@ -147,18 +147,7 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
         },
         jshint: {
             options: {
-                browser: true,
-                curly: true,
-                eqeqeq: false,
-                loopfunc: false,
-                noarg: true,
-                trailing: true,
-                undef: true,
-                unused: true,
-
-                globals: {
-                    OpenSeadragon: true
-                }
+                jshintrc: '.jshintrc'
             },
             beforeconcat: sources,
             afterconcat: [ distribution ]
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5f9dd1a4..8c653ab4 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     "grunt": "~0.4.0",
     "grunt-contrib-compress": "~0.5.0",
     "grunt-contrib-concat": "~0.1.2",
-    "grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.1.1",
+    "grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.6.0",
     "grunt-contrib-uglify": "~0.2.2",
     "grunt-contrib-qunit": "~0.2.0",
     "grunt-contrib-connect": "~0.1.2",