ESLint v2.0.0-alpha-1 released

Note: This version of ESLint is not ready for production use and is provided to gather feedback from the community before releasing the final version. Please let us know if you having any problems or feedback by creating issues.

Highlights

This is a summary of the major changes you need to know about for this version of ESLint.

Installing

Since this is a pre-release version, you will not automatically be upgraded by npm. You must specify the next tag when installing:

npm i eslint@next --save-dev

You can also specify the version directly:

npm i eslint@2.0.0-alpha-1 --save-dev

Code Path Analysis

ESLint v2.0.0 formally introduces code path analysis. While we’ve tried to make best guesses at how execution flowed through code, there were several instances where we just couldn’t get everything correct. For instance, trying to guarantee that every code path contained a return statement. Fully implementing code path analysis means that we (and you, through custom rules) can now correctly understand how execution is proceeding through code. Several rules have been updated to make use of code path analysis, fixing some longtime bugs in existing rules. As a result, ESLint is even better at picking up certain types of errors.

Migration Guide

As there are a lot of changes, we’ve created a migration guide describing the changes in great detail along with the steps you should take to address them. Not all ESLint users will be affected by the changes, however, the changes are big enough that we recommend everyone read the migration thoroughly.

Configuration Cascading Changes

Prior to 2.0.0, if a directory contained both an .eslintrc file and a package.json file with ESLint configuration information, the settings from the two files would be merged together. In 2.0.0, only the settings from the .eslintrc.* file are used and the ones in package.json are ignored when both are present. Otherwise, package.json can still be used with ESLint configuration, but only if no other .eslintrc.* files are present.

Read more in the migration guide.

Language Options

Prior to 2.0.0, the way to enable language options was by using ecmaFeatures in your configuration. In 2.0.0:

• The ecmaFeatures property is now under a top-level parserOptions property.
• All ECMAScript 6 ecmaFeatures flags have been removed in favor of a ecmaVersion property under parserOptions that can be set to 3, 5 (default), or 6.
• The ecmaFeatures.modules flag has been replaced by a sourceType property under parserOptions which can be set to "script" (default) or "module" for ES6 modules.

Read more in the migration guide.

Built-In Global Variables

Prior to 2.0.0, new global variables that were standardized as part of ES6 such as Promise, Map, Set, and Symbol were included in the built-in global environment. This could lead to potential issues when, for example, no-undef permitted use of the Promise constructor even in ES5 code where promises are unavailable. In 2.0.0, the built-in environment only includes the standard ES5 global variables, and the new ES6 global variables have been moved to the es6 environment.

Read more in the migration guide.

New Rules

There are several new rules for this release:

• array-callback-return
• no-implicit-globals
• no-restricted-imports
• prefer-rest-params
• yield-star-spacing

Breaking Changes

• Breaking: Correct links between variables and references (fixes #4615) (Toru Nagashima)
• Breaking: Implement parserOptions (fixes #4641) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Breaking: Remove space-after-keyword newline check (fixes #4149) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Breaking: Treat package.json like the rest of configs (fixes #4451) (Ilya Volodin)
• Breaking: Remove autofix from eqeqeq (fixes #4578) (Ilya Volodin)
• Breaking: Remove ES6 global variables from builtins (fixes #4085) (Brandon Mills)
• Breaking: Simplify rule schemas (fixes #3625) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Breaking: added bower_components to default ignore (fixes #3550) (Julian Laval)
• Breaking: Switch to Espree 3.0.0 (fixes #4334) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Breaking: Freeze context object (fixes #4495) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Breaking: Remove warnings of readonly from no-undef (fixes #4504) (Toru Nagashima)
• Breaking: Implement yield-star-spacing rule (fixes #4115) (Bryan Smith)
• Breaking: Default no-magic-numbers to none. (fixes #4193) (alberto)
• Breaking: Allow empty arrow body (fixes #4411) (alberto)

Features

• New: Add no-implicit-globals rule (fixes #4542) (Joshua Peek)
• New: array-callback-return rule (fixes #1128) (Toru Nagashima)
• New: Add no-restricted-imports rule (fixes #3196) (Guy Ellis)
• New: prefer-rest-params rule (fixes #4108) (Toru Nagashima)
• New: Code Path Analysis (fixes #3530) (Toru Nagashima)

Enhancements

• Update: no-use-before-define checks invalid initializer (fixes #4280) (Toru Nagashima)
• Update: Add class body support to indent rule (fixes #4372) (Gyandeep Singh)
• Update: Add ‘method’ option to no-empty (fixes #4605) (Kai Cataldo)
• Update: Option to ignore constructor Fns object-shorthand (fixes #4487) (Kai Cataldo)
• Update: add class option to no-use-before-define (fixes #3944) (Toru Nagashima)
• Update: allowAfterThis option in no-underscore-dangle (fixes #3435) (just-boris)
• Update: prefer-const begins to cover separating init (fixes #4474) (Toru Nagashima)

Bug Fixes

• Fix: Update rule tests for parser options (fixes #4673) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Fix: max-len rule overestimates the width of some tabs (fixes #4661) (Nick Evans)
• Fix: Use oneValuePerFlag for --ignore-pattern option (fixes #4507) (George Zahariev)
• Fix: Handle forbidden LineTerminators in no-extra-parens (fixes #4229) (Brandon Mills)
• Fix: Check YieldExpression argument in no-extra-parens (fixes #4608) (Brandon Mills)
• Fix: Do not cache package.json (fixes #4611) (Spain)
• Fix: consistent-return checks the last (refs #3530, fixes #3373) (Toru Nagashima)
• Fix: no-unreachable with the code path (refs #3530, fixes #3939) (Toru Nagashima)
• Fix: no-this-before-super with the code path analysis (refs #3530) (Toru Nagashima)
• Fix: no-fallthrough with the code path analysis (refs #3530) (Toru Nagashima)
• Fix: constructor-super with the code path analysis (refs #3530) (Toru Nagashima)
• Fix: Adding options unit tests for --ignore-pattern (refs #4507) (Kevin Partington)
• Fix: no-eval come to catch indirect eval (fixes #4399, fixes #4441) (Toru Nagashima)

Documentation

• Docs: writing mistake (molee1905)
• Docs: no-extra-semi no longer refers to deprecated rule (fixes #4598) (Kevin Partington)
• Docs: Update docs/rules/no-plusplus.md (Xiangyun Chi)
• Docs: Add Code of Conduct (fixes #3095) (Nicholas C. Zakas)

Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade: Handlebars to >= 4.0.5 for security reasons (fixes #4642) (Jacques Favreau)

Build Related

• Build: Consume no-underscore-dangle allowAfterThis option (fixes #4599) (Kevin Partington)