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Zamiell opened this issue Jul 24, 2023 · 3 comments
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Docs: no-extra-semi doesn't have formatting warning #7307

Zamiell opened this issue Jul 24, 2023 · 3 comments
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Zamiell commented Jul 24, 2023

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The documentation for the @typescript-eslint/no-extra-parens rule is here:
https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/no-extra-parens/

At the top of the page, we can clearly see the formatting warning:

We strongly recommend you do not use this rule or any other formatting linter rules. Use a separate dedicated formatter instead. See What About Formatting? for more information.

The documentation for the @typescript-eslint/no-extra-semi rule is here:
https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/no-extra-semi/

However, it does have have the warning. This seems like it is a bug, because when we use Prettier, it automatically removes superfluous semicolons, making this rule unnecessary. Thus, I believe that the warning should be shown in the same way that it is for the no-extra-parens rule.

The reason that the warning is not showing is because the meta.type for the rule is equal to suggestion instead of layout. (no-extra-parens has a meta.type of layout, so the warning shows.)

Thus, I recommend that we change the meta.type for the rule to layout.

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https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/no-extra-semi/
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bradzacher commented Jul 24, 2023 •
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no-extra-semi isn't a formatting concern though - it's a syntactic one!

as you can see from this playground - the extra semicolons change the AST!

Unlike with extra parentheses where one may stylistically choose to add parens to manually disambiguate code - extra semicolons are not a stylistic choice - they are a correctness issue.

On the other hand the presence or absence of semicolons is covered by the semi rule which does have the block because it is a stylistic concern.

Now formatters do handle this case of extra semis - yes - but that doesn't specifically mean it is a formatting issue. This is just an easy and unopinionated problem that formatters can deal with easily so they do - even though it changes the AST.

@bradzacher bradzacher closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Jul 24, 2023
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Zamiell commented Jul 25, 2023

can we update the docs to say that the rule is unnecessary if you are using Prettier?
i feel like that is useful information that should be documented

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We don't like to document such a think as every formatter is different and so a rule may or may not be unnecessary.

Instead we just recommend that users use 3rd party configs like eslint-config-prettier and reference that as the source of truth for what rules are unnecessary.

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