ESLint-plugin-React

React specific linting rules for ESLint

Installation

Install ESLint either locally or globally.

$ npm install eslint --save-dev

If you installed ESLint globally, you have to install React plugin globally too. Otherwise, install it locally.

$ npm install eslint-plugin-react --save-dev

Configuration

Add plugins section and specify ESLint-plugin-React as a plugin.

{
  "plugins": [
    "react"
  ]
}

You can also specify some settings that will be shared across all the plugin rules.

{
  "settings": {
    "react": {
      "createClass": "createReactClass", // Regex for Component Factory to use, default to "createReactClass"
      "pragma": "React",  // Pragma to use, default to "React"
      "version": "15.0" // React version, default to the latest React stable release
    }
  }
}

If it is not already the case you must also configure ESLint to support JSX.

With ESLint 1.x.x:

{
  "ecmaFeatures": {
    "jsx": true
  }
}

With ESLint 2.x.x or 3.x.x:

{
  "parserOptions": {
    "ecmaFeatures": {
      "jsx": true
    }
  }
}

Finally, enable all of the rules that you would like to use. Use our preset to get reasonable defaults quickly, and/or choose your own:

  "rules": {
    "react/jsx-uses-react": "error",
    "react/jsx-uses-vars": "error",
  }

List of supported rules

• react/display-name: Prevent missing displayName in a React component definition
• react/forbid-component-props: Forbid certain props on Components
• react/forbid-elements: Forbid certain elements
• react/forbid-prop-types: Forbid certain propTypes
• react/forbid-foreign-prop-types: Forbid foreign propTypes
• react/no-array-index-key: Prevent using Array index in key props
• react/no-children-prop: Prevent passing children as props
• react/no-danger: Prevent usage of dangerous JSX properties
• react/no-danger-with-children: Prevent problem with children and props.dangerouslySetInnerHTML
• react/no-deprecated: Prevent usage of deprecated methods
• react/no-did-mount-set-state: Prevent usage of setState in componentDidMount
• react/no-did-update-set-state: Prevent usage of setState in componentDidUpdate
• react/no-direct-mutation-state: Prevent direct mutation of this.state
• react/no-find-dom-node: Prevent usage of findDOMNode
• react/no-is-mounted: Prevent usage of isMounted
• react/no-multi-comp: Prevent multiple component definition per file
• react/no-redundant-should-component-update: Prevent usage of shouldComponentUpdate when extending React.PureComponent
• react/no-render-return-value: Prevent usage of the return value of React.render
• react/no-set-state: Prevent usage of setState
• react/no-string-refs: Prevent using string references in ref attribute.
• react/no-unescaped-entities: Prevent invalid characters from appearing in markup
• react/no-unknown-property: Prevent usage of unknown DOM property (fixable)
• react/no-unused-prop-types: Prevent definitions of unused prop types
• react/no-will-update-set-state: Prevent usage of setState in componentWillUpdate
• react/prefer-es6-class: Enforce ES5 or ES6 class for React Components
• react/prefer-stateless-function: Enforce stateless React Components to be written as a pure function
• react/prop-types: Prevent missing props validation in a React component definition
• react/react-in-jsx-scope: Prevent missing React when using JSX
• react/require-default-props: Enforce a defaultProps definition for every prop that is not a required prop
• react/require-optimization: Enforce React components to have a shouldComponentUpdate method
• react/require-render-return: Enforce ES5 or ES6 class for returning value in render function
• react/self-closing-comp: Prevent extra closing tags for components without children (fixable)
• react/sort-comp: Enforce component methods order
• react/sort-prop-types: Enforce propTypes declarations alphabetical sorting
• react/style-prop-object: Enforce style prop value being an object
• react/void-dom-elements-no-children: Prevent void DOM elements (e.g. <img />, <br />) from receiving children

JSX-specific rules

• react/jsx-boolean-value: Enforce boolean attributes notation in JSX (fixable)
• react/jsx-closing-bracket-location: Validate closing bracket location in JSX (fixable)
• react/jsx-curly-spacing: Enforce or disallow spaces inside of curly braces in JSX attributes (fixable)
• react/jsx-equals-spacing: Enforce or disallow spaces around equal signs in JSX attributes (fixable)
• react/jsx-filename-extension: Restrict file extensions that may contain JSX
• react/jsx-first-prop-new-line: Enforce position of the first prop in JSX (fixable)
• react/jsx-handler-names: Enforce event handler naming conventions in JSX
• react/jsx-indent: Validate JSX indentation (fixable)
• react/jsx-indent-props: Validate props indentation in JSX (fixable)
• react/jsx-key: Validate JSX has key prop when in array or iterator
• react/jsx-max-props-per-line: Limit maximum of props on a single line in JSX (fixable)
• react/jsx-no-bind: Prevent usage of .bind() and arrow functions in JSX props
• react/jsx-no-comment-textnodes: Prevent comments from being inserted as text nodes
• react/jsx-no-duplicate-props: Prevent duplicate props in JSX
• react/jsx-no-literals: Prevent usage of unwrapped JSX strings
• react/jsx-no-target-blank: Prevent usage of unsafe target='_blank'
• react/jsx-no-undef: Disallow undeclared variables in JSX
• react/jsx-pascal-case: Enforce PascalCase for user-defined JSX components
• react/jsx-sort-props: Enforce props alphabetical sorting
• react/jsx-space-before-closing: Validate spacing before closing bracket in JSX (fixable)
• react/jsx-tag-spacing: Validate whitespace in and around the JSX opening and closing brackets (fixable)
• react/jsx-uses-react: Prevent React to be incorrectly marked as unused
• react/jsx-uses-vars: Prevent variables used in JSX to be incorrectly marked as unused
• react/jsx-wrap-multilines: Prevent missing parentheses around multilines JSX (fixable)

Other useful plugins

• JSX accessibility: eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y
• React Native: eslint-plugin-react-native

Shareable configurations

Recommended

This plugin exports a recommended configuration that enforce React good practices.

To enable this configuration use the extends property in your .eslintrc config file:

{
  "extends": ["eslint:recommended", "plugin:react/recommended"]
}

See ESLint documentation for more information about extending configuration files.

The rules enabled in this configuration are:

• react/display-name
• react/jsx-key
• react/jsx-no-comment-textnodes
• react/jsx-no-duplicate-props
• react/jsx-no-target-blank
• react/jsx-no-undef
• react/jsx-uses-react
• react/jsx-uses-vars
• react/no-children-prop
• react/no-danger-with-children
• react/no-deprecated
• react/no-direct-mutation-state
• react/no-find-dom-node
• react/no-is-mounted
• react/no-render-return-value
• react/no-string-refs
• react/no-unescaped-entities
• react/no-unknown-property
• react/prop-types
• react/react-in-jsx-scope
• react/require-render-return

All

This plugin also exports an all configuration that includes every available rule. This pairs well with the eslint:all rule.

{
  "plugins": [
    "react"
  ],
  "extends": ["eslint:all", "plugin:react/all"]
}

Note: These configurations will import eslint-plugin-react and enable JSX in parser options.

License

ESLint-plugin-React is licensed under the MIT License.