space-unary-ops

Enforce consistent spacing before or after unary operators

This rule was deprecated in ESLint v8.53.0. Please use the corresponding rule in @stylistic/eslint-plugin-js.

Some style guides require or disallow spaces before or after unary operators. This is mainly a stylistic issue, however, some JavaScript expressions can be written without spacing which makes it harder to read and maintain.

Rule Details

This rule enforces consistency regarding the spaces after words unary operators and after/before nonwords unary operators.

For words operators, this rule only applies when a space is not syntactically required. For instance, delete obj.foo requires the space and will not be considered by this rule. The equivalent delete(obj.foo) has an optional space (delete (obj.foo)), therefore this rule will apply to it.

Examples of unary words operators:

// new
var joe = new Person();

// delete
var obj = {
    foo: 'bar'
};
delete obj.foo;

// typeof
typeof {} // object

// void
void 0 // undefined
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Examples of unary nonwords operators:

if ([1,2,3].indexOf(1) !== -1) {};
foo = --foo;
bar = bar++;
baz = !foo;
qux = !!baz;
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Options

This rule has three options:

• words - applies to unary word operators such as: new, delete, typeof, void, yield
• nonwords - applies to unary operators such as: -, +, --, ++, !, !!
• overrides - specifies overwriting usage of spacing for each operator, word or non word. This is empty by default, but can be used to enforce or disallow spacing around operators. For example:

    "space-unary-ops": [
        2, {
          "words": true,
          "nonwords": false,
          "overrides": {
            "new": false,
            "++": true
          }
    }]
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In this case, spacing will be disallowed after a new operator and required before/after a ++ operator.

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default {"words": true, "nonwords": false} option:

/*eslint space-unary-ops: "error"*/

typeof!foo;

void{foo:0};

new[foo][0];

delete(foo.bar);

++ foo;

foo --;

- foo;

+ "3";
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/*eslint space-unary-ops: "error"*/

function *foo() {
    yield(0)
}
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/*eslint space-unary-ops: "error"*/

async function foo() {
    await(bar);
}
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Examples of correct code for this rule with the {"words": true, "nonwords": false} option:

/*eslint space-unary-ops: "error"*/

// Word unary operator "typeof" is followed by a whitespace.
typeof !foo;

// Word unary operator "void" is followed by a whitespace.
void {foo:0};

// Word unary operator "new" is followed by a whitespace.
new [foo][0];

// Word unary operator "delete" is followed by a whitespace.
delete (foo.bar);

// Unary operator "++" is not followed by whitespace.
++foo;

// Unary operator "--" is not preceded by whitespace.
foo--;

// Unary operator "-" is not followed by whitespace.
-foo;

// Unary operator "+" is not followed by whitespace.
+"3";
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/*eslint space-unary-ops: "error"*/

function *foo() {
    yield (0)
}
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/*eslint space-unary-ops: "error"*/

async function foo() {
    await (bar);
}
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Version

This rule was introduced in ESLint v0.10.0.

Resources

• Rule source
• Tests source