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JoshuaKGoldberg opened this issue Aug 8, 2022 · 5 comments · Fixed by #9684
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Docs: Add guidance for third party ESLint plugins and type checking #5444

JoshuaKGoldberg opened this issue Aug 8, 2022 · 5 comments · Fixed by #9684
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Before You File a Documentation Request Please Confirm You Have Done The Following...

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Forking from jsx-eslint/eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y#812 (comment): ESLint plugins want to be able to use type checking in their rules. For example, eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y's jsx-a11y/alt-text wants to be able to determine whether a spread provides a prop such as alt to an image that would make it obviously inaccessible.

// Is this statically known to be inaccessible?
// We need type information to know!
<img src="something.jpg" {...myProps} />

Copying jsx-eslint/eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y#812 (comment):

A couple of implementation detail points that make being type-aware tricky:

  • If the rule uses the typescript-eslint tooling to be type-aware, it'll be locked into TypeScript (i.e. Flow and any future competitors won't work for its type checking)
  • In my (and other typescript-eslint maintainers') experience, it's generally confusing for users when rules provide different -even better!- results when the config changes to allow type checking

Those concerns might be small and not more important than getting better info. Either way, this scenario is something we probably need to make explicit docs for on typescript-eslint.io.

Out of curiosity @ljharb, have you seen other plugins add type-aware linting the way this issue is suggesting before?

Copying jsx-eslint/eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y#812 (comment):

eslint-plugin-react and eslint-plugin-import have lots of examples to look at.

The one trick tho will be that we'll probably need to add the infrastructure for testing with the TS parser.

We'll want to document, at the very least:

I would mention other maintainers on those repos to ask for input too, but... @ljharb are you the only one? Are there other people we should loop in? 😂

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https://typescript-eslint.io/docs/development/custom-rules should probably link to this new page

Maybe https://typescript-eslint.io/docs/development/custom-plugins or some similar URL?
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I don’t use type-aware linting, but in maintaining eslint-plugin-solid I definitely appreciate being able to write fully-typed rules, especially for JSX in the AST. It’s surfaced a lot of possible situations to handle and provided confidence that the finished rules can handle anything.

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If plugins that aren't ts-specific use our getParserServices util then it'll throw if the code isn't parsed by our parser (which would lock them in to just our parser).

The secret sauce for them to consume type-info if it's available is to do a check like this:

if (context.parserServices?.hasFullTypeInformation === true) {
  // has full type info
  const services = getParserServices(context);
}

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We should also note to answer the question from this #help post in Discord: https://discord.com/channels/1026804805894672454/1112089535967412416

one more thing: if I have an eslint config with overrides for *.ts files, and use a seperate parser there, is that parser considered a peer or normal dependency? what about typescript itself when you're using the type checking features?

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I ended up putting my config in a separate npm package and didn't put typescript as a dependency, and put the typescript-eslint parser as a peerdependency
Is this a correct way of doing this?

Thanks @NanderTGA for asking!

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The secret sauce for them to consume type-info if it's available is to do a check like this:

if (context.parserServices?.hasFullTypeInformation === true) {

Note that that's no longer the case in v6: #7124. Just checking whether context?.parserServices.program exists will check whether (a) you're using typescript-eslint and (b) it's got type information. We also recommend against "progressive enhancement" with rule type information: #7158.

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Surfacing dicussion from a Discord discussion on plugin dependencies, plugin packages should:

  • have an explicit dependency on @typescript-eslint/utils:
    • it's runtime code
    • you'll ensure what version you run & test against
  • have a peer dependency of @typescript-eslint/parser, eslint, and typescript
    • those are all packages consumers are expected to be using already
    • you still want to enforce the version range allowed without making the package manager install them

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