This plugin intends to support linting of ES2015+ (ES6+) import/export syntax, and prevent issues with misspelling of file paths and import names. All the goodness that the ES2015+ static module syntax intends to provide, marked up in your editor.
**IF YOU ARE USING THIS WITH SUBLIME**: see the [bottom section](#sublimelinter-eslint) for important info.
## Rules
### Static analysis
* Ensure imports point to a file/module that can be resolved. ([`no-unresolved`])
* Ensure named imports correspond to a named export in the remote file. ([`named`])
* Ensure a default export is present, given a default import. ([`default`])
* Ensure imported namespaces contain dereferenced properties as they are dereferenced. ([`namespace`])
* Restrict which files can be imported in a given folder ([`no-restricted-paths`])
* Forbid import of modules using absolute paths ([`no-absolute-path`])
* Forbid `require()` calls with expressions ([`no-dynamic-require`])
* Prevent importing the submodules of other modules ([`no-internal-modules`])
* Forbid webpack loader syntax in imports ([`no-webpack-loader-syntax`])
* Forbid a module from importing itself ([`no-self-import`])
* Forbid a module from importing a module with a dependency path back to itself ([`no-cycle`])
* Prevent unnecessary path segments in import and require statements ([`no-useless-path-segments`])
* Forbid importing modules from parent directories ([`no-relative-parent-imports`])
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## Installation
```sh
npm install eslint-plugin-import -g
```
or if you manage ESLint as a dev dependency:
```sh
# inside your project's working tree
npm install eslint-plugin-import --save-dev
```
All rules are off by default. However, you may configure them manually
in your `.eslintrc.(yml|json|js)`, or extend one of the canned configs:
You may use the following shortcut or assemble your own config using the granular settings described below.
Make sure you have installed [`@typescript-eslint/parser`] which is used in the following configuration. Unfortunately NPM does not allow to list optional peer dependencies.
resolvers are just npm packages, so [third party packages are supported](https://github.com/import-js/eslint-plugin-import/wiki/Resolvers) (and encouraged!).
You may set the following settings in your `.eslintrc`:
#### `import/extensions`
A list of file extensions that will be parsed as modules and inspected for
`export`s.
This defaults to `['.js']`, unless you are using the `react` shared config,
in which case it is specified as `['.js', '.jsx']`.
```js
"settings": {
"import/extensions": [
".js",
".jsx"
]
}
```
If you require more granular extension definitions, you can use:
```js
"settings": {
"import/resolver": {
"node": {
"extensions": [
".js",
".jsx"
]
}
}
}
```
Note that this is different from (and likely a subset of) any `import/resolver`
extensions settings, which may include `.json`, `.coffee`, etc. which will still
factor into the `no-unresolved` rule.
Also, the following `import/ignore` patterns will overrule this list.
#### `import/ignore`
A list of regex strings that, if matched by a path, will
not report the matching module if no `export`s are found.
In practice, this means rules other than [`no-unresolved`](./docs/rules/no-unresolved.md#ignore) will not report on any
`import`s with (absolute filesystem) paths matching this pattern.
`no-unresolved` has its own [`ignore`](./docs/rules/no-unresolved.md#ignore) setting.
```yaml
settings:
import/ignore:
- \.coffee$ # fraught with parse errors
- \.(scss|less|css)$ # can't parse unprocessed CSS modules, either
```
#### `import/core-modules`
An array of additional modules to consider as "core" modules--modules that should
be considered resolved but have no path on the filesystem. Your resolver may
already define some of these (for example, the Node resolver knows about `fs` and
`path`), so you need not redefine those.
For example, Electron exposes an `electron` module:
```js
import 'electron' // without extra config, will be flagged as unresolved!
```
that would otherwise be unresolved. To avoid this, you may provide `electron` as a
core module:
```yaml
# .eslintrc.yml
settings:
import/core-modules: [ electron ]
```
In Electron's specific case, there is a shared config named `electron`
that specifies this for you.
Contribution of more such shared configs for other platforms are welcome!
#### `import/external-module-folders`
An array of folders. Resolved modules only from those folders will be considered as "external". By default - `["node_modules"]`. Makes sense if you have configured your path or webpack to handle your internal paths differently and want to consider modules from some folders, for example `bower_components` or `jspm_modules`, as "external".
This option is also useful in a monorepo setup: list here all directories that contain monorepo's packages and they will be treated as external ones no matter which resolver is used.
If you are using `yarn` PnP as your package manager, add the `.yarn` folder and all your installed dependencies will be considered as `external`, instead of `internal`.
Each item in this array is either a folder's name, its subpath, or its absolute prefix path:
-`jspm_modules` will match any file or folder named `jspm_modules` or which has a direct or non-direct parent named `jspm_modules`, e.g. `/home/me/project/jspm_modules` or `/home/me/project/jspm_modules/some-pkg/index.js`.
-`packages/core` will match any path that contains these two segments, for example `/home/me/project/packages/core/src/utils.js`.
-`/home/me/project/packages` will only match files and directories inside this directory, and the directory itself.
Please note that incomplete names are not allowed here so `components` won't match `bower_components` and `packages/ui` won't match `packages/ui-utils` (but will match `packages/ui/utils`).
#### `import/parsers`
A map from parsers to file extension arrays. If a file extension is matched, the
dependency parser will require and use the map key as the parser instead of the
configured ESLint parser. This is useful if you're inter-op-ing with TypeScript
directly using webpack, for example:
```yaml
# .eslintrc.yml
settings:
import/parsers:
@typescript-eslint/parser: [ .ts, .tsx ]
```
In this case, [`@typescript-eslint/parser`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@typescript-eslint/parser)
must be installed and require-able from the running `eslint` module's location
(i.e., install it as a peer of ESLint).
This is currently only tested with `@typescript-eslint/parser` (and its predecessor,
`typescript-eslint-parser`) but should theoretically work with any moderately
ESTree-compliant parser.
It's difficult to say how well various plugin features will be supported, too,
depending on how far down the rabbit hole goes. Submit an issue if you find strange
behavior beyond here, but steel your heart against the likely outcome of closing
with `wontfix`.
#### `import/resolver`
See [resolvers](#resolvers).
#### `import/cache`
Settings for cache behavior. Memoization is used at various levels to avoid the copious amount of `fs.statSync`/module parse calls required to correctly report errors.
For normal `eslint` console runs, the cache lifetime is irrelevant, as we can strongly assume that files should not be changing during the lifetime of the linter process (and thus, the cache in memory)
For long-lasting processes, like [`eslint_d`] or [`eslint-loader`], however, it's important that there be some notion of staleness.
If you never use [`eslint_d`] or [`eslint-loader`], you may set the cache lifetime to `Infinity` and everything should be fine:
```yaml
# .eslintrc.yml
settings:
import/cache:
lifetime: ∞ # or Infinity
```
Otherwise, set some integer, and cache entries will be evicted after that many seconds have elapsed:
A regex for packages should be treated as internal. Useful when you are utilizing a monorepo setup or developing a set of packages that depend on each other.
By default, any package referenced from [`import/external-module-folders`](#importexternal-module-folders) will be considered as "external", including packages in a monorepo like yarn workspace or lerna environment. If you want to mark these packages as "internal" this will be useful.
For example, if your packages in a monorepo are all in `@scope`, you can configure `import/internal-regex` like this
```yaml
# .eslintrc.yml
settings:
import/internal-regex: ^@scope/
```
## SublimeLinter-eslint
SublimeLinter-eslint introduced a change to support `.eslintignore` files
which altered the way file paths are passed to ESLint when linting during editing.
This change sends a relative path instead of the absolute path to the file (as ESLint
normally provides), which can make it impossible for this plugin to resolve dependencies
on the filesystem.
This workaround should no longer be necessary with the release of ESLint 2.0, when
`.eslintignore` will be updated to work more like a `.gitignore`, which should
support proper ignoring of absolute paths via `--stdin-filename`.
In the meantime, see [roadhump/SublimeLinter-eslint#58](https://github.com/roadhump/SublimeLinter-eslint/issues/58)
for more details and discussion, but essentially, you may find you need to add the following
`SublimeLinter` config to your Sublime project file:
```json
{
"folders":
[
{
"path": "code"
}
],
"SublimeLinter":
{
"linters":
{
"eslint":
{
"chdir": "${project}/code"
}
}
}
}
```
Note that `${project}/code` matches the `code` provided at `folders[0].path`.
The purpose of the `chdir` setting, in this case, is to set the working directory
from which ESLint is executed to be the same as the directory on which SublimeLinter-eslint
