eslint-config-prettier
Turns off all rules that are unnecessary or might conflict with [Prettier].
This lets you use your favorite shareable config without letting its stylistic choices get in the way when using Prettier.
Note that this config only turns rules off, so it only makes sense using it together with some other config.
Contents
- Installation
- CLI helper tool
- Example configuration
- Special rules
- Other rules worth mentioning
- Contributing
- License
Installation
Install eslint-config-prettier:
npm install --save-dev eslint-config-prettier
Then, add eslint-config-prettier to the “extends” array in your
.eslintrc.*
file. Make sure to put it
last, so it gets the chance to override other
configs.
{
"extends": [
"some-other-config-you-use",
"prettier"
]
}
A few ESLint plugins are supported as well:
- [@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin]
- [eslint-plugin-babel]
- [eslint-plugin-flowtype]
- [eslint-plugin-react]
- [eslint-plugin-standard]
- [eslint-plugin-unicorn]
- [eslint-plugin-vue]
Add extra exclusions for the plugins you use like so:
{
"extends": [
"some-other-config-you-use",
"prettier",
"prettier/@typescript-eslint",
"prettier/babel",
"prettier/flowtype",
"prettier/react",
"prettier/standard",
"prettier/unicorn",
"prettier/vue"
]
}
If you extend a config which uses a plugin, it is recommended to add
"prettier/that-plugin"
(if available). For example,
[eslint-config-airbnb] enables [eslint-plugin-react] rules, so
"prettier/react"
is needed:
{
"extends": [
"airbnb",
"prettier",
"prettier/react"
]
}
If you’re unsure which plugins are used, you can usually find them in
your package.json
.
Excluding deprecated rules
Some of the rules that eslint-config-prettier turns off may be
deprecated. This is perfectly fine, but if you really
need to omit the deprecated rules, you can do so by setting the
ESLINT_CONFIG_PRETTIER_NO_DEPRECATED
environment variable
to a non-empty value. For example:
env ESLINT_CONFIG_PRETTIER_NO_DEPRECATED=true npx eslint-find-rules --deprecated index.js
CLI helper tool
eslint-config-prettier also ships with a little CLI tool to help you check if your configuration contains any rules that are unnecessary or conflict with Prettier.
You can run it using npx
:
npx eslint --print-config path/to/main.js | npx eslint-config-prettier-check
(Change path/to/main.js
to a file that exists in your
project.)
In theory you need to run
npx eslint --print-config file.js | npx eslint-config-prettier-check
for every single file in your project to be 100% sure that there are no
conflicting rules, because ESLint supports having different rules for
different files. But usually you’ll have about the same rules for all
files, so it is enough to run the command on one file (pick one that you
won’t be moving). If you use [multiple configuration files] or
[overrides], you can (but you probably don’t need to!) run the above
script several times with different --print-config
arguments, such as:
npx eslint --print-config index.js | npx eslint-config-prettier-check
npx eslint --print-config test/index.js | npx eslint-config-prettier-check
npx eslint --print-config legacy/main.js | npx eslint-config-prettier-check
Exit codes:
- 0: No problems found.
- 1: Unexpected error.
- 2: Conflicting rules found.
Example configuration
{
"extends": [
"standard",
"plugin:@typescript-eslint/recommended",
"plugin:flowtype/recommended",
"plugin:react/recommended",
"plugin:unicorn/recommended",
"plugin:vue/recommended",
"prettier",
"prettier/@typescript-eslint",
"prettier/babel",
"prettier/flowtype",
"prettier/react",
"prettier/standard",
"prettier/unicorn",
"prettier/vue"
],
"plugins": [
"@typescript-eslint",
"babel",
"flowtype",
"react",
"standard",
"unicorn",
"vue"
],
"parserOptions": {
"sourceType": "module",
"ecmaFeatures": {
"jsx": true
}
},
"env": {
"es6": true,
"node": true
}
}
Special rules
There a few rules that eslint-config-prettier disables that actually can be enabled in some cases.
- Some require certain options. The CLI helper tool validates this.
- Some require special attention when writing code. The CLI helper tool warns you if any of those rules are enabled, but can’t tell if anything is problematic.
- Some can cause problems if using [eslint-plugin-prettier] and
--fix
.
For maximum ease of use, the special rules are disabled by default. If you want them, you need to explicitly specify them in your ESLint config.
[arrow-body-style] and [prefer-arrow-callback]
These rules might cause problems if using
[eslint-plugin-prettier] and --fix
.
If you use any of these rules together with the
prettier/prettier
rule from [eslint-plugin-prettier], you
can in some cases end up with invalid code due to a bug in ESLint’s
autofix.
These rules are safe to use if:
- You don’t use [eslint-plugin-prettier]. In other words, you run
eslint --fix
andprettier --write
as separate steps. - You do use [eslint-plugin-prettier], but don’t use
--fix
. (But then, what’s the point?)
You can still use these rules together with [eslint-plugin-prettier] if you want, because the bug does not occur all the time. But if you do, you need to keep in mind that you might end up with invalid code, where you manually have to insert a missing closing parenthesis to get going again.
If you’re fixing large of amounts of previously unformatted code,
consider temporarily disabling the prettier/prettier
rule
and running eslint --fix
and prettier --write
separately.
See these issues for more information:
- [eslint-config-prettier#31]
- [eslint-config-prettier#71]
- [eslint-plugin-prettier#65]
When the autofix bug in ESLint has been fixed, the special case for these rules can be removed.
[curly]
This rule requires certain options.
If a block (for example after if
, else
,
for
or while
) contains only one statement,
JavaScript allows omitting the curly braces around that statement. This
rule enforces if or when those optional curly braces should be
omitted.
If you use the "multi-line"
or
"multi-or-nest"
option, the rule can conflict with
Prettier.
For example, the "multi-line"
option allows this
line:
if (cart.items && cart.items[0] && cart.items[0].quantity === 0) updateCart(cart);
However, Prettier might consider the line too long and turn it into
the following, which the "multi-line"
option does
not allow:
if (cart.items && cart.items[0] && cart.items[0].quantity === 0)
updateCart(cart);
If you like this rule, it can be used just fine with Prettier as long
as you don’t use the "multi-line"
or
"multi-or-nest"
option.
Example ESLint configuration:
{
"rules": {
"curly": ["error", "all"]
}
}
[lines-around-comment]
This rule can be used with certain options.
This rule requires empty lines before and/or after comments. Prettier preserves blank lines, with two exceptions:
- Several blank lines in a row are collapsed into a single blank line. This is fine.
- Blank lines at the beginning and end of blocks, objects and arrays are always removed. This may lead to conflicts.
By default, ESLint requires a blank line above the comment is this case:
if (result) {
/* comment */
return result;
}
However, Prettier removes the blank line:
if (result) {
/* comment */
return result;
}
If you like this rule, it can be used just fine with Prettier as long as you add some extra configuration to allow comments at the start and end of blocks, objects and arrays.
Example ESLint configuration:
{
"rules": {
"lines-around-comment": [
"error",
{
"beforeBlockComment": true,
"afterBlockComment": true,
"beforeLineComment": true,
"afterLineComment": true,
"allowBlockStart": true,
"allowBlockEnd": true,
"allowObjectStart": true,
"allowObjectEnd": true,
"allowArrayStart": true,
"allowArrayEnd": true
}
]
}
}
[max-len]
(The following applies to [vue/max-len] as well.)
This rule requires special attention when writing code.
Usually, Prettier takes care of following a maximum line length automatically. However, there are cases where Prettier can’t do anything, such as for long strings, regular expressions and comments. Those need to be split up by a human.
If you’d like to enforce an even stricter maximum line length policy
than Prettier can provide automatically, you can enable this rule. Just
remember to keep max-len
’s options and Prettier’s
printWidth
option in sync.
Keep in mind that you might have to refactor code slightly if
Prettier formats lines in a way that the max-len
rule does
not approve of.
Example ESLint configuration:
{
"rules": {
"max-len": ["error", {"code": 80, "ignoreUrls": true}]
}
}
[no-confusing-arrow]
This rule requires certain options.
For example, the rule could warn about this line:
var x = a => 1 ? 2 : 3;
With {allowParens: true}
(the default since ESLint
6.0.0), adding parentheses is considered a valid way to avoid the arrow
confusion:
var x = a => (1 ? 2 : 3);
While Prettier keeps those parentheses, it removes them if the line is long enough to introduce a line break:
.prototype.calculateImportantNumbers = inputNumber =>
EnterpriseCalculator1 ? 2 : 3;
With {allowParens: false}
, ESLint instead suggests
switching to an explicit return:
var x = a => { return 1 ? 2 : 3; };
That causes no problems with Prettier.
If you like this rule, it can be used just fine with Prettier as long
as the allowParens
option is off.
Example ESLint configuration:
{
"rules": {
"no-confusing-arrow": ["error", { "allowParens": false }]
}
}
(Note: The CLI helper tool considers {allowParens: true}
to be the default, which is the case since ESLint 6.0.0. The tool will
produce a warning if you use the default even if you use an older
version of ESLint. It doesn’t hurt to explicitly set
{allowParens: false}
even though it is technically
redundant. This way you are prepared for a future ESLint upgrade and the
CLI tool can be kept simple.)
[no-mixed-operators]
This rule requires special attention when writing code.
This rule forbids mixing certain operators, such as
&&
and ||
.
For example, the rule could warn about this line:
var foo = a + b * c;
The rule suggests adding parentheses, like this:
var foo = a + (b * c);
However, Prettier removes many “unnecessary” parentheses, turning it back to:
var foo = a + b * c;
If you want to use this rule with Prettier, you need to split the expression into another variable:
var bar = b * c;
var foo = a + bar;
Keep in mind that Prettier prints some “unnecessary” parentheses, though:
var foo = (a && b) || c;
Example ESLint configuration:
{
"rules": {
"no-mixed-operators": "error"
}
}
[no-tabs]
This rule requires certain Prettier options.
This rule disallows the use of tab characters at all. It can be used just fine with Prettier as long as you don’t configure Prettier to indent using tabs.
Example ESLint configuration:
{
"rules": {
"no-tabs": "error"
}
}
Example Prettier configuration (this is the default, so adding this is not required):
{
"useTabs": false
}
Note: Since [ESlint 5.7.0] this rule can be configured to work regardless of your Prettier configuration:
{
"rules": {
"no-tabs": ["error", {"allowIndentationTabs": true}]
}
}
A future version of eslint-config-prettier might check for that automatically.
[no-unexpected-multiline]
This rule requires special attention when writing code.
This rule disallows confusing multiline expressions where a newline looks like it is ending a statement, but is not.
For example, the rule could warn about this:
var hello = "world"
1, 2, 3].forEach(addNumber) [
Prettier usually formats this in a way that makes it obvious that a semicolon was missing:
var hello = "world"[(1, 2, 3)].forEach(addNumber);
However, there are cases where Prettier breaks things into several
lines such that the no-unexpected-multiline
conflicts.
const value = text.trim().split("\n")[position].toLowerCase();
Prettier breaks it up into several lines, though, causing a conflict:
const value = text
.trim()
.split("\n")
.toLowerCase(); [position]
If you like this rule, it can usually be used with Prettier without problems, but occasionally you might need to either temporarily disable the rule or refactor your code.
const value = text
.trim()
.split("\n")
// eslint-disable-next-line no-unexpected-multiline
.toLowerCase();
[position]
// Or:
const lines = text.trim().split("\n");
const value = lines[position].toLowerCase();
Note: If you do enable this rule, you have to run ESLint and Prettier as two separate steps (and ESLint first) in order to get any value out of it. Otherwise Prettier might reformat your code in such a way that ESLint never gets a chance to report anything (as seen in the first example).
Example configuration:
{
"rules": {
"no-unexpected-multiline": "error"
}
}
[quotes]
(The following applies to [babel/quotes] and [@typescript-eslint/quotes] as well.)
This rule requires certain options and certain Prettier options.
Usually, you don’t need this rule at all. But there are two cases where it could be useful:
- To enforce the use of backticks rather than single or double quotes for strings.
- To forbid backticks where regular strings could have been used.
Enforce backticks
If you’d like all strings to use backticks (never quotes), enable the
"backtick"
option.
Example ESLint configuration:
{
"rules": {
"quotes": ["error", "backtick"]
}
}
Forbid unnecessary backticks
In the following example, the first array item could have been written with quotes instead of backticks.
const strings = [
`could have been a regular string`,
`
multiple
lines
`,
`uses ${interpolation}`,
String.raw`\tagged/`,
; ]
If you’d like ESLint to enforce
`could have been a regular string`
being written as either
"could have been a regular string"
or
'could have been a regular string'
, you need to use some
specific configuration. The quotes
rule has two options, a
string option and an object option.
- The first (string) option needs to be set to
"single"
or"double"
and be kept in sync with Prettier’s [singleQuote] option. - The second (object) option needs the following properties:
"avoidEscape": true
to follow Prettier’s [string formatting rules]."allowTemplateLiterals": false
to disallow unnecessary backticks.
Example double quote configuration
ESLint:
{
"rules": {
"quotes": [
"error",
"double",
{ "avoidEscape": true, "allowTemplateLiterals": false }
]
}
}
Prettier (this is the default, so adding this is not required):
{
"singleQuote": false
}
Example single quote configuration
ESLint:
{
"rules": {
"quotes": [
"error",
"single",
{ "avoidEscape": true, "allowTemplateLiterals": false }
]
}
}
Prettier:
{
"singleQuote": true
}
[vue/html-self-closing]
This rule requires certain options.
This rule enforces whether elements should be self-closing or not.
Prettier generally preserves the way you wrote your elements:
<div />
<div></div>
<MyComponent />
<MyComponent></MyComponent>
<svg><path d="" /></svg>
<svg><path d=""></path></svg>
But for known void HTML elements, Prettier always uses the
self-closing style. For example, <img>
is turned into
<img />
.
If you like this rule, it can be used just fine with Prettier as long
as you set html.void
to "any"
.
Example ESLint configuration:
{
"rules": {
"vue/html-self-closing": [
"error",
{
"html": {
"void": "any"
}
}
]
}
}
Other rules worth mentioning
These rules don’t conflict with Prettier, but have some gotchas when used with Prettier.
[no-sequences]
This rule forbids using JavaScript’s confusing comma operator (sequence expressions). This piece of code is not doing what it looks like:
4, 7]; matrix[
Prettier adds parentheses to the above to make it clear that a sequence expression is used:
4, 7)]; matrix[(
However, the no-sequences
rule allows comma operators if
the expression sequence is explicitly wrapped in parentheses. Since
Prettier automatically wraps them in parentheses, you might never see
any warnings from ESLint about comma operators.
Ending up with an accidental sequence expression can easily happen
while refactoring. If you want ESLint to catch such mistakes, it is
recommended to forbid sequence expressions entirely using
[no-restricted-syntax] ([as mentioned in the no-sequences
documentation][no-sequences-full]):
{
"rules": {
"no-restricted-syntax": ["error", "SequenceExpression"]
}
}
If you still need to use the comma operator for some edge case, you
can place an
// eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-syntax
comment on
the line above the expression. no-sequences
can safely be
disabled if you use the no-restricted-syntax
approach.
You can also supply a custom message if you want:
{
"rules": {
"no-restricted-syntax": [
"error",
{
"selector": "SequenceExpression",
"message": "The comma operator is confusing and a common mistake. Don’t use it!"
}
]
}
}
Contributing
eslint-config-prettier has been tested with:
- ESLint 7.9.0
- eslint-config-prettier 6.11.0 and older were tested with ESLint 6.x
- eslint-config-prettier 5.1.0 and older were tested with ESLint 5.x
- eslint-config-prettier 2.10.0 and older were tested with ESLint 4.x
- eslint-config-prettier 2.1.1 and older were tested with ESLint 3.x
- prettier 2.1.2
- @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin 4.2.0
- eslint-plugin-babel 5.3.1
- eslint-plugin-flowtype 5.2.0
- eslint-plugin-react 7.21.2
- eslint-plugin-standard 4.0.1
- eslint-plugin-unicorn 22.0.0
- eslint-plugin-vue 6.2.2
Have new rules been added since those versions? Have we missed any rules? Is there a plugin you would like to see exclusions for? Open an issue or a pull request!
If you’d like to add support for eslint-plugin-foobar, this is how you’d go about it:
First, create foobar.js
:
"use strict";
.exports = {
modulerules: {
"foobar/some-rule": "off"
}; }
Then, create test-lint/foobar.js
:
/* eslint-disable quotes */
"use strict";
// Prettier does not want spaces before the parentheses, but
// `plugin:foobar/recommended` wants one.
console.log();
test-lint/foobar.js
must fail when used with
eslint-plugin-foobar and eslint-plugin-prettier at the same time – until
"prettier/foobar"
is added to the “extends” property of an
ESLint config. The file should be formatted according to Prettier, and
that formatting should disagree with the plugin.
Finally, you need to mention the plugin in several places:
- Add
"foobar.js"
to the “files” field inpackage.json
. - Add eslint-plugin-foobar to the “devDependencies” field in
package.json
. - Make sure that at least one rule from eslint-plugin-foobar gets used
in
.eslintrc.base.js
. - Add it to the list of supported plugins, to the example config and
to Contributing section in
README.md
.
When you’re done, run npm test
to verify that you got it
all right. It runs several other npm scripts:
"test:lint"
makes sure that the files intest-lint/
pass ESLint when the exclusions from eslint-config-prettier are used. It also lints the code of eslint-config-prettier itself, and checks that Prettier has been run on all files."test:lint-verify-fail"
is run by a test intest/lint-verify-fail.test.js
."test:lint-rules"
is run by a test intest/rules.test.js
."test:jest"
runs unit tests that check a number of things:- That eslint-plugin-foobar is mentioned in all the places shown above.
- That no unknown rules are turned off. This helps catching typos, for example.
- That the CLI works.
"test:cli-sanity"
and"test:cli-sanity-warning"
are sanity checks for the CLI.
License
MIT.
[@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin]: https://github.com/typescript-eslint/typescript-eslint [@typescript-eslint/quotes]: https://github.com/typescript-eslint/typescript-eslint/blob/master/packages/eslint-plugin/docs/rules/quotes.md [eslint 5.7.0]: https://eslint.org/blog/2018/10/eslint-v5.7.0-released [prettier]: https://github.com/prettier/prettier [arrow-body-style]: https://eslint.org/docs/rules/arrow-body-style [babel/quotes]: https://github.com/babel/eslint-plugin-babel#rules [curly]: https://eslint.org/docs/rules/curly [eslint-config-airbnb]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-config-airbnb [eslint-config-prettier#31]: https://github.com/prettier/eslint-config-prettier/issues/31 [eslint-config-prettier#71]: https://github.com/prettier/eslint-config-prettier/issues/71 [eslint-plugin-babel]: https://github.com/babel/eslint-plugin-babel [eslint-plugin-flowtype]: https://github.com/gajus/eslint-plugin-flowtype [eslint-plugin-prettier#65]: https://github.com/prettier/eslint-plugin-prettier/issues/65 [eslint-plugin-prettier]: https://github.com/prettier/eslint-plugin-prettier [eslint-plugin-react]: https://github.com/yannickcr/eslint-plugin-react [eslint-plugin-standard]: https://github.com/xjamundx/eslint-plugin-standard [eslint-plugin-unicorn]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/eslint-plugin-unicorn [eslint-plugin-vue]: https://github.com/vuejs/eslint-plugin-vue [lines-around-comment]: https://eslint.org/docs/rules/lines-around-comment [max-len]: https://eslint.org/docs/rules/max-len [multiple configuration files]: https://eslint.org/docs/user-guide/configuring#configuration-cascading-and-hierarchy [no-confusing-arrow]: https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-confusing-arrow [no-mixed-operators]: https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-mixed-operators [no-restricted-syntax]: https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-restricted-syntax [no-sequences-full]: https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-sequences#when-not-to-use-it [no-sequences]: https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-sequences [no-tabs]: https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-tabs [no-unexpected-multiline]: https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-unexpected-multiline [overrides]: https://eslint.org/docs/user-guide/configuring#configuration-based-on-glob-patterns [prefer-arrow-callback]: https://eslint.org/docs/rules/prefer-arrow-callback [quotes]: https://eslint.org/docs/rules/quotes [singlequote]: https://prettier.io/docs/en/options.html#quotes [string formatting rules]: https://prettier.io/docs/en/rationale.html#strings [vue/html-self-closing]: https://github.com/vuejs/eslint-plugin-vue/blob/master/docs/rules/html-self-closing.md [vue/max-len]: https://github.com/vuejs/eslint-plugin-vue/blob/master/docs/rules/max-len.md