eslint-config-standard VS javascript

eslint-config-standard

Based on your requirements and environment, answer the questions accordingly. At least with eslint version 8.0.1, you are only presented with 2 style guides: standard and XO. Personally, I prefer the standard styling guide but at any give time, it is a personal choice and as such feel free to choose any from a bunch of available options. Once all dependencies are installed, ensure that you have the following packages added as devDependencies to your project:

Hmm right, haven't found too many controversial things in https://github.com/standard/eslint-config-standard/blob/master/.eslintrc.json, besides no-semi fixed by semi-standard and comma-dangle "never" (sucks for git history, they should allow it for multiline cases https://eslint.org/docs/rules/comma-dangle#always-multiline)

ESLint plugin for StandardJS; allows you to format code as StandardJS, but clear more serious errors too.

The JS Open Source Community is filled with people grifting things like this. Quite notably, there's a linter called JS Standard Style, which actually has nothing to do with JS Standards.

It's marketed as if it was a standard, the fact that it isn't is tucked away in the readme, and also -- the entire project is just a wrapper around someones .eslintrc file, yet barely any credit is given to the ESLint devs who do all the work.

Go ahead and read the readme here, https://github.com/standard/standard. Could you genuinely tell this wasn't really a JS Standard at a glance? Could you tell this was just a config file for someone elses work? None of the donations go upstream to eslint by the way.

Hell, the actual config file is hidden inside a sub repo:

https://github.com/standard/eslint-config-standard

which has the audacity to claim

> This module is for advanced users. You probably want to use standard instead :)

It's a config file for someone elses program! Why does this library go through so much effort to hide that it's just someones config file? Why on earth is it called JS Standard Style?

The whole community is filled with slimy nonsense like this.

Eslint is the default linter. Standard is a curated list of rules with good quality.

https://github.com/standard/eslint-config-standard

I would start with that and tweak what you don't like

Well done, we managed to set up ESLint using Airbnb’s JavaScript styling guide to our newly created Next.js project. You could have used another popular styling guide like Google, Standard, or even create your own to your liking.

Instead of writing our own exhaustive list of JavaScript rules, we can use a ruleset defined by the developers at Airbnb, and then adjust it to suit our preferences. The Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide is well known among JavaScript developers and used by some big companies: Lonely Planet, National Geographic and Sainsburys to name a few. It’s a great place to start.

Airbnb Style Guide

# question 1: ? How would you like to use ESLint? … To check syntax only To check syntax and find problems ❯ To check syntax, find problems, and enforce code style # question 2: ? What type of modules does your project use? … ❯ JavaScript modules (import/export) CommonJS (require/exports) None of these # question 3: ? Which framework does your project use? … ❯ React Vue.js None of these # question 4 (select "No", because we won't add TypeScript support for this project): ? Does your project use TypeScript? › No / Yes # question 5: ? Where does your code run? … Browser ✔ Node # question 6: ? How would you like to define a style for your project? … ❯ Use a popular style guide Answer questions about your style Inspect your JavaScript file(s) # question 7 (we'll rely on Airbnb's JavaScript style guide here): ? Which style guide do you want to follow? … ❯ Airbnb: https://github.com/airbnb/javascript Standard: https://github.com/standard/standard Google: https://github.com/google/eslint-config-google # question 8: ? What format do you want your config file to be in? … JavaScript YAML ❯ JSON # the final prompt here is where eslint will ask you if you want to install all the necessary dependencies. Select "Yes" and hit enter: Checking peerDependencies of eslint-config-airbnb@latest The config that you have selected requires the following dependencies: eslint-plugin-react@^7.21.5 eslint-config-airbnb@latest eslint@^5.16.0 || ^6.8.0 || ^7.2.0 eslint-plugin-import@^2.22.1 eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y@^6.4.1 eslint-plugin-react-hooks@^4 || ^3 || ^2.3.0 || ^1.7.0 ? Would you like to install them now with npm? › No / Yes

Extensible : ESLint supports the use of plugins and custom rules, enabling you to extend its functionality to suit your project requirements. Notably, there are popular ESLint plugins that align with well-established coding standards and styles. Examples include Airbnb JS Style Guide and Google JS Style Guide.

An obvious pick for React projects, but eslint-plugin-react along with their plugin:react/recommended rule set is a must. This will give you some sensible rules such as requiring a key to be specified in JSX arrays. eslint-config-airbnb is another good (if a bit loose) base rule set on top of eslint-plugin-react to start from.

That particular advice is from eight years ago, as part of their original ES6 guide.