diff --git a/Gruntfile.js b/Gruntfile.js
index 78df843..8996547 100644
--- a/Gruntfile.js
+++ b/Gruntfile.js
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
 	grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-copy');
 	grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-compress');
 	grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-clean');
+	grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-jshint');
+	grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-jscs-checker');
 	grunt.loadNpmTasks('lumbar');
 
 	// Parse config files
@@ -44,9 +46,11 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
 	----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 
 	grunt.registerTask('modules', 'Build the FullCalendar modules', [
+		'jscs:srcModules',
 		'clean:modules',
 		'lumbar:build',
 		'concat:moduleVariables',
+		'jshint:builtModules',
 		'uglify:modules'
 	]);
 
@@ -87,6 +91,8 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
 	----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 
 	grunt.registerTask('languages', [
+		'jscs:srcLanguages',
+		'jshint:srcLanguages',
 		'clean:languages',
 		'generateLanguages',
 		'uglify:languages'
@@ -300,9 +306,27 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
 
 
 
+	/* Linting and Code Style Checking
+	----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+
+	grunt.registerTask('check', 'Lint and check code style', [
+		'jscs',
+		'jshint:srcModules',
+		'jshint:srcLanguages',
+		'lumbar:build',
+		'jshint:builtModules',
+		'jshint:tests',
+	]);
+
+	// configs located elsewhere
+	config.jshint = require('./jshint.conf');
+	config.jscs = require('./jscs.conf');
+
+
+
 	// finally, give grunt the config object...
 	grunt.initConfig(config);
 
-
+	// load everything in the ./tasks/ directory
 	grunt.loadTasks('tasks');
 };
diff --git a/jscs.conf.js b/jscs.conf.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c94549
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jscs.conf.js
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+module.exports = {
+
+	options: {
+		requireCurlyBraces: [ 'if', 'else', 'for', 'while', 'do', 'try', 'catch' ],
+		requireSpacesInFunctionExpression: { 'beforeOpeningCurlyBrace': true },
+		disallowSpacesInFunctionExpression: { 'beforeOpeningRoundBrace': true },
+		disallowSpacesInsideParentheses: true,
+		requireSpacesInsideObjectBrackets: 'all',
+		disallowQuotedKeysInObjects: 'allButReserved',
+		disallowSpaceAfterObjectKeys: true,
+		requireCommaBeforeLineBreak: true,
+		requireOperatorBeforeLineBreak: [ '?', '+', '-', '/', '*', '=', '==', '===', '!=', '!==', '>', '>=', '<', '<=' ],
+		disallowLeftStickedOperators: [ '?' ],
+		requireRightStickedOperators: [ '!' ],
+		requireLeftStickedOperators: [ ',' ],
+		disallowRightStickedOperators: [ ':' ],
+		disallowSpaceAfterPrefixUnaryOperators: [ '++', '--', '+', '-', '~', '!' ],
+		disallowSpaceBeforePostfixUnaryOperators: [ '++', '--' ],
+		requireCamelCaseOrUpperCaseIdentifiers: true,
+		disallowKeywords: [ 'with' ],
+		disallowMultipleLineStrings: true,
+		requireDotNotation: true,
+		requireParenthesesAroundIIFE: true
+	},
+
+	srcModules: [
+		'src/**/*.js',
+		'!**/intro.js',
+		'!**/outro.js'
+	],
+
+	srcLanguages: 'lang/*.js',
+
+	tests: {
+		options: {
+			// more restrictions.
+			// we eventually want these to apply to all other code too.
+			requireSpaceAfterKeywords: [ 'if', 'else', 'for', 'while', 'do', 'switch', 'return', 'try', 'catch' ],
+			requireSpacesInsideArrayBrackets: 'all',
+			requireKeywordsOnNewLine: [ 'else', 'catch' ],
+			disallowTrailingWhitespace: true,
+			validateQuoteMarks: '\'',
+			maximumLineLength: 120
+		},
+		src: 'tests/automated/*.js'
+	}
+
+};
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/jshint.conf.js b/jshint.conf.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bfb27d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jshint.conf.js
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+module.exports = {
+
+	options: {
+		browser: true,
+		globals: {
+			define: true,
+			moment: true,
+			jQuery: true
+		},
+		bitwise: true,
+		camelcase: true,
+		curly: true,
+		forin: true,
+		freeze: true,
+		immed: true,
+		noarg: true,
+		smarttabs: true,
+		trailing: true,
+		eqnull: true,
+		'-W032': true, // Unnecessary semicolon. (lumbar's ;;)
+		'-W008': true // A leading decimal point can be confused with a dot (ex: .5)
+	},
+
+	srcModules: [
+		'src/**/*.js',
+		'!**/intro.js',
+		'!**/outro.js'
+	],
+
+	builtModules: {
+		options: {
+			// Built modules are ready to be checked for...
+			undef: true, // use of undeclared globals
+			unused: 'vars', // functions/variables (excluding function arguments) that are never used
+			latedef: 'nofunc' // variables that are referenced before their `var` statement
+		},
+		src: 'build/out/{fullcalendar,gcal}.js'
+	},
+
+	srcLanguages: 'lang/*.js',
+
+	tests: 'tests/automated/*.js'
+
+};
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index af60176..26f33cc 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
     "grunt-contrib-copy": "~0.4.0",
     "grunt-contrib-compress": "~0.4.0",
     "grunt-contrib-clean": "~0.4.0",
+    "grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.8.0",
+    "grunt-jscs-checker": "~0.3.2",
     "lumbar": "~2.0.0-beta19"
   },
   "scripts": {