# Developer Guide

Contributing is welcome.

# 🐛 Bug reporting

If you think you’ve found a bug in ESLint, please create a new issue (opens new window) or a pull request on GitHub.

Please include as much detail as possible to help us properly address your issue. If we need to triage issues and constantly ask people for more detail, that’s time taken away from actually fixing issues. Help us be as efficient as possible by including a lot of detail in your issues.

# ✨ Proposing a new rule or a rule change

In order to add a new rule or a rule change, you should:

Create issue on GitHub with description of proposed rule
Generate a new rule using the official yeoman generator (opens new window)
Run npm start
Write test scenarios & implement logic
Describe the rule in the generated docs file
Make sure all tests are passing
Run npm run lint and fix any errors
Run npm run update in order to update readme and recommended configuration
Create PR and link created issue in description

We're more than happy to see potential contributions, so don't hesitate. If you have any suggestions, ideas or problems feel free to add new issue (opens new window), but first please make sure your question does not repeat previous ones.

# 🔥 Working with rules

Before you start writing new rule, please read the official ESLint guide (opens new window).

Next, in order to get an idea how does the AST of the code that you want to check looks like, use the astexplorer.net (opens new window). The astexplorer.net (opens new window) is a great tool to inspect ASTs, also Vue templates are supported.

After opening astexplorer.net (opens new window), select Vue as the syntax and vue-eslint-parser as the parser.

Since single file components in Vue are not plain JavaScript, we can't use the default parser, and we had to introduce additional one: vue-eslint-parser, that generates enhanced AST with nodes that represent specific parts of the template syntax, as well as what's inside the <script> tag.

To know more about certain nodes in produced ASTs, go here:

The vue-eslint-parser provides few useful parser services, to help traverse the produced AST and access tokens of the template:

context.parserServices.defineTemplateBodyVisitor(visitor, scriptVisitor)
context.parserServices.getTemplateBodyTokenStore()

Check out an example rule (opens new window) to get a better understanding of how these work.

Please be aware that regarding what kind of code examples you'll write in tests, you'll have to accordingly setup the parser in RuleTester (you can do it on per test case basis though). See an example here (opens new window)

If you'll stuck, remember there are plenty of rules you can learn from already, and if you can't find the right solution - don't hesitate to reach out in issues. We're happy to help!

# ✅ JSDoc type checking with TypeScript

We have type checking enabled via TypeScript and JSDoc.
The command to perform type checking is: npm run tsc

This is just to help you write the rules, not to do strict type checking. If you find it difficult to resolve type checking warnings, feel free to suppress warnings using the // @ts-nocheck and // @ts-ignore comment.

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