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Deprecate linting without type information #754

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ajafff opened this issue Jan 31, 2021 · 0 comments
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Deprecate linting without type information #754

ajafff opened this issue Jan 31, 2021 · 0 comments

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ajafff commented Jan 31, 2021

Motivation:

  • There's a lot of code related to linting without type information.
  • Some rules work slightly different with and without type information
    • this might still be the case if we keep the current behavior of linting without type information if the file has // @ts-nocheck
  • Additional testing overhead
  • Linting without type information has no real benefit besides a little less startup time
  • If you use TypeScript, you should also have a tsconfig.json or jsconfig.json
  • Automatically looking for a tsconfig.json if no files are listed can be surprising
    • especially if you get an error like Options '--ext' and '--project' cannot be used together even though you didn't explicitly enable --project
  • Certain features don't work without type information
  • Linting in editors also works with type information out of the box when using the LanguageService plugin
  • Makes the documentation a less confusing
  • Makes integrating @typescript-eslint/parser and @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin easier (Investigate adding compatibility for ESLint rules #517)

TBD:

What to do with the current behavior regarding // @ts-nocheck?

  • keep as is, rules still need to check if type information is available
  • remove it, always use type information, makes rules a lot easier
  • completely ignore these files? OTOH could have added a disable comment for the linter as well
  • make it configurable
    • name?
    • what are the options to choose? "lint all files" vs. "lint only checked files"
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