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JoshuaKGoldberg opened this issue Feb 20, 2025 · 5 comments
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Splitting out of #10725 (comment): we refreshed our docs on tseslint.config but didn't mention that eslint/rfcs#126 was accepted and eslint/eslint#19116 is in Implementing status.

We should probably mention this in some way, but I'm not clear on what the right phrasing is. 🤔

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Once they land theirs realistically we can deprecate ours as we no longer provide any additional features.

I don't think we should bother mentioning these things until it lands though. There's no implementation to compare with right now.

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kirkwaiblinger commented Feb 21, 2025

I think in my original comment I spaced out and forgot that there was a whole section on adding support for the extends key. So no action needed on that front.

I still think we should explicitly mention the flattening/no need for ... though.

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I still think we should explicitly mention the flattening/no need for ... though.

Once the ESLint RFC lands, what will the difference be with us? Maybe I misread it, but I thought they're also going with flattening?

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kirkwaiblinger commented Mar 2, 2025

It's not that there's a difference to the eslint RFC (though technically there may be a teeny difference in .flat() vs .flat(Infinity) in the extends array) - it's just that the current version of the docs doesn't currently mention the flattening behavior at all; you have to infer it's there from the examples. https://typescript-eslint.io/packages/typescript-eslint#config

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what will the difference be with us?

The only difference that I can think of is that we currently do

extendedConfig.files = baseConfig.files

Whereas eslint will do

extendedConfig.files = [...extendedConfig.files, baseConfig.files]

Which we'll likely want to breaking change to match quickly to avoid confusion.

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