Frequently Asked Questions

Should I Migrate from TSLint to ESLint?

Yes.

TSLint is deprecated and will only receive patches for security vulnerabilities and breaking TypeScript changes. Even if it still works on your project, it will become less useful over time as TypeScript evolves.

Should I Use `tslint-to-eslint-config`?

tslint-to-eslint-config is recommended for use if you require near-identical behavior in transitioning from TSLint to ESLint. This is most reasonable when your project is large enough that fixing for different linter rules would be a significant time investment.

However, after -or even better, before- you're migrated to ESLint, we recommend you take this opportunity to re-evaluate your core lint rules. TSLint's recommendations were solidified several core TypeScript versions ago and don't always reflect the latest and greatest standards and lint rules.

Our recommended TSLint-to-ESLint configuration migration approach is:

Run tslint-to-eslint-config on your project
Disable complaints on a line-, file-, or rule basis for any rules you do not want to enable and/or are now giving complaints
Switch your configuration to extend from typescript-eslint's recommended and recommend-requiring-type-checking rulesets
Repeat step 2
Add any community plugins relevant to your project, then repeat step 2

😉 Consider filing granular tickets to track investigating re-enabling disabled lint rules to make sure the work doesn't get forgotten.

Should I Use Prettier?

Yes!

Formatting responsibilities, such as indentation and line wrapping, are exceedingly difficult to get implement in linters, and as such are practically impossible to get correct in them. Formatters such as Prettier do a much better job of formatting your code. See this issue for more explanation.

The maintenance teams at both TSLint and typescript-eslint recommend using a formatter such as Prettier to format your code instead of a linter.

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🙏 eslint-config-prettier is an excellent ESLint configuration that disables formatting rules from your configuration. Please use it. 🙏