The two linting tools we’ll implement are:
Add the following packages to your package.json as devDependencies:
"babel-eslint": "^8.2.2",
"eslint": "^4.19.0",
"eslint-config-standard": "^11.0.0",
"eslint-config-standard-react": "^6.0.0",
"eslint-plugin-import": "^2.9.0",
"eslint-plugin-node": "^6.0.1",
"eslint-plugin-promise": "^3.7.0",
"eslint-plugin-react": "^7.7.0",
"eslint-plugin-standard": "^3.0.1",
eslint-config-standard is tedious to install because you need to install 6 other peer dependencies manually.
"stylelint": "^9.1.3",
"stylelint-config-standard": "^18.2.0",
Let’s run npm install to install these dependencies,
then let’s add configuration files for each at the root of the repository.
---
extends:
- standard
- standard-react
parser: babel-eslint # necessary for some futuristic syntax
---
extends:
- stylelint-config-standard
Finally, we’ll add the linting commands to package.json’s scripts:
"eslint": "eslint .",
"stylelint": "stylelint '**/*.css'",
Now, let’s see what happens when we run these commands:
npm run eslint
Hmmm… that’s a lot of errors for packages in node_modules!
Let’s ignore all files in our .gitignore!
Let’s update our commands to:
"eslint": "eslint . --ignore-path .gitignore",
"stylelint": "stylelint '**/*.css' --ignore-path .gitignore",
Now, when we run npm run eslint or npm run stylelint,
we’ll only see errors concerning our own code.
However, notice that when we run npm run eslint, we get errors
in our tests files that look like 'test' is not defined.
This is because jest adds globals to the runtime to make tests authoring easier.
We want eslint to understand that these files are tests.
There are multiple ways to enable this:
My preferred method is to the following .eslintrc to all __tests__ folders:
---
env:
jasmine: true
jest: true
This is the correct method, but it’s also tedious.
We could also just add this to our root .eslintrc file.
You may also get errors like 'fetch' is not defined. The reason is that we did
not specify the client/’s environment as a browser! Create this client/.eslintrc file:
env:
browser: true
Now notice that when you run npm run eslint,
there are semicolon errors as standard does not like semicolons.
Instead of manually fixing these errors, just run npm run eslint -- --fix.
npm run passes all arguments after the -- to the underlying command.
Here are my final commands for linting.
Run npx eslint -h and npx stylelint -h for more information:
"eslint": "eslint . .storybook --cache --cache-location node_modules/.cache/eslint --ignore-path .gitignore",
"stylelint": "stylelint '**/*.css' --cache --cache-location node_modules/.cache/stylelint --ignore-path .gitignore",