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RobertStanyon opened this issue Apr 25, 2025 · 1 comment
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Docs: return-await options are misleading #11102

RobertStanyon opened this issue Apr 25, 2025 · 1 comment
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Before You File a Documentation Request Please Confirm You Have Done The Following...

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Under "Options", it has:

This rule accepts the following options, and has more strict settings in the strict and strict-type-checked configs.

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const defaultOptionsRecommended: Options = ['in-try-catch'];

// These options are merged on top of the recommended defaults
const defaultOptionsStrict: Options = ['error-handling-correctness-only'];

Which implies that the rule is part of the recommended config, while in reality the rule is not enabled in the recommended config, only in the strict config.

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https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/return-await/

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Somewhat related - #10423. The rule no longer explicitly claims at the top to be part of @typescript-eslint/recommended-type-checked, but still implies it is in the body.
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@RobertStanyon RobertStanyon changed the title Docs: <a short description of my proposal> Docs: return-await options are misleading Apr 25, 2025
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Agreed we should make some docs changes here. The specific part in question defaultOptionsRecommended is auto-generated, so we'll need to mess with script that generates the wording. This rule has a special thing going on where it's only included in the strict-type-checked preset and it's included in that preset with options other than its default options. Other rules with overridden options in a strict preset are included in the recommended preset and use their default options... so I think we just need to add logic handling this different case into the script.

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