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Enhancement: Should we use json5 to parse .eslintrc?

See original GitHub issue

comments, trailing commas allowed
single/quotes allowed (this one is both an advantage and a drawback, more an advantage because I guess .eslintrc can be linted as well to force consistencies in quotes
adopted by others libs, like Babel’s .babelrc

PR #9935

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Created 6 years ago
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stevenvachoncommented, May 1, 2018

A *.js file means having to prepend module.exports = , correct? This likely breaks compatibility with code/text editors. I think JSON5 makes more sense.

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not-an-aardvarkcommented, Feb 6, 2018

Huh, I didn’t realize that. I sort of wish we weren’t doing that – I don’t think people should call a file .json if it is not actually valid JSON. In that case, we should probably come up with a better fix for https://github.com/eslint/eslint/pull/9226, since it affects a non-deprecated config file format.

Along similar lines, I’m mildly opposed to making this change because people can use YAML if they want a more strict config file format.

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