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ESLint is a tool for identifying and reporting on patterns found in ECMAScript/JavaScript code. In many ways, it is similar to JSLint and JSHint with a few exceptions:
Prerequisites: Node.js (^8.10.0, ^10.13.0, or >=11.10.1), npm version 3+.
You can install ESLint using npm:
$ npm install eslint --save-dev
You should then set up a configuration file:
$ ./node_modules/.bin/eslint --init
After that, you can run ESLint on any file or directory like this:
$ ./node_modules/.bin/eslint yourfile.js
It is also possible to install ESLint globally rather than locally (using npm install eslint --global). However, any plugins or shareable configs that you use must be installed locally in either case.
After running eslint --init, you‘ll have a .eslintrc file in your directory. In it, you’ll see some rules configured like this:
{ "rules": { "semi": ["error", "always"], "quotes": ["error", "double"] } }
The names "semi" and "quotes" are the names of rules in ESLint. The first value is the error level of the rule and can be one of these values:
"off" or 0 - turn the rule off"warn" or 1 - turn the rule on as a warning (doesn't affect exit code)"error" or 2 - turn the rule on as an error (exit code will be 1)The three error levels allow you fine-grained control over how ESLint applies rules (for more configuration options and details, see the configuration docs).
ESLint adheres to the JS Foundation Code of Conduct.
Before filing an issue, please be sure to read the guidelines for what you're reporting:
Yes. JSCS has reached end of life and is no longer supported.
We have prepared a migration guide to help you convert your JSCS settings to an ESLint configuration.
We are now at or near 100% compatibility with JSCS. If you try ESLint and believe we are not yet compatible with a JSCS rule/configuration, please create an issue (mentioning that it is a JSCS compatibility issue) and we will evaluate it as per our normal process.
No, ESLint does both traditional linting (looking for problematic patterns) and style checking (enforcement of conventions). You can use ESLint for everything, or you can combine both using Prettier to format your code and ESLint to catch possible errors.
package.json as devDependencies (or dependencies, if your project uses ESLint at runtime).npm install and all your dependencies are installed.npm view eslint-plugin-myplugin peerDependencies to see what peer dependencies eslint-plugin-myplugin has.Yes, ESLint natively supports parsing JSX syntax (this must be enabled in configuration). Please note that supporting JSX syntax is not the same as supporting React. React applies specific semantics to JSX syntax that ESLint doesn't recognize. We recommend using eslint-plugin-react if you are using React and want React semantics.
ESLint has full support for ECMAScript 3, 5 (default), 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. You can set your desired ECMAScript syntax (and other settings, like global variables or your target environments) through configuration.
ESLint's parser only officially supports the latest final ECMAScript standard. We will make changes to core rules in order to avoid crashes on stage 3 ECMAScript syntax proposals (as long as they are implemented using the correct experimental ESTree syntax). We may make changes to core rules to better work with language extensions (such as JSX, Flow, and TypeScript) on a case-by-case basis.
In other cases (including if rules need to warn on more or fewer cases due to new syntax, rather than just not crashing), we recommend you use other parsers and/or rule plugins. If you are using Babel, you can use the babel-eslint parser and eslint-plugin-babel to use any option available in Babel.
Once a language feature has been adopted into the ECMAScript standard (stage 4 according to the TC39 process), we will accept issues and pull requests related to the new feature, subject to our contributing guidelines. Until then, please use the appropriate parser and plugin(s) for your experimental feature.
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We have scheduled releases every two weeks on Friday or Saturday. You can follow a release issue for updates about the scheduling of any particular release.
ESLint follows semantic versioning. However, due to the nature of ESLint as a code quality tool, it‘s not always clear when a minor or major version bump occurs. To help clarify this for everyone, we’ve defined the following semantic versioning policy for ESLint:
eslint:recommended is updated.According to our policy, any minor update may report more errors than the previous release (ex: from a bug fix). As such, we recommend using the tilde (~) in package.json e.g. "eslint": "~3.1.0" to guarantee the results of your builds.
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