Global ESLint does not resolve local dependencies of a module defined in extends

What version of ESLint are you using?

v2.9.0

What parser (default, Babel-ESLint, etc.) are you using?

N/A

Please show your full configuration: What did you do? Please include the actual source code causing the issue. What did you expect to happen? What actually happened? Please include the actual, raw output from ESLint.

Using module path with local install

npm install eslint
npm install eslint-config-canonical
echo '{ "extends": "./node_modules/eslint-config-canonical/eslintrc.json" }' > .eslintrc
node ./node_modules/.bin/eslint ./src

Works as expected (produces linting report for files contained in ./src).

Using module name with local install

npm install eslint
npm install eslint-config-canonical
echo '{ "extends": "eslint-config-canonical" }' > .eslintrc
node ./node_modules/.bin/eslint ./src

Works as expected (produces linting report for files contained in ./src).

Using module path with global install

npm install eslint
npm install eslint-config-canonical
echo '{ "extends": "eslint-config-canonical" }' > .eslintrc
/Users/gajus/.nvm/versions/node/v6.1.0/bin/eslint ./src

Cannot find dependency of eslint-config-canonical:

Oops! Something went wrong! :(

ESLint couldn't find the plugin "eslint-plugin-no-use-extend-native". This can happen for a couple different reasons:

1. If ESLint is installed globally, then make sure eslint-plugin-no-use-extend-native is also installed globally. A globally-installed ESLint cannot find a locally-installed plugin.

2. If ESLint is installed locally, then it's likely that the plugin isn't installed correctly. Try reinstalling by running the following:

    npm i eslint-plugin-no-use-extend-native@latest --save-dev

If you still can't figure out the problem, please stop by https://gitter.im/eslint/eslint to chat with the team.

Expected result:

Lint code using eslint-config-canonical and its dependencies.

Using module name with global install

npm install eslint
npm install eslint-config-canonical
echo '{ "extends": "eslint-config-canonical" }' > .eslintrc
/Users/gajus/.nvm/versions/node/v6.1.0/bin/eslint ./src

Complain that module “eslint-config-canonical” is not found:

Cannot find module 'eslint-config-canonical'
Referenced from: /Users/gajus/Documents/dev/applaudience/forward-proxy/.eslintrc
Error: Cannot find module 'eslint-config-canonical'
Referenced from: /Users/gajus/Documents/dev/applaudience/forward-proxy/.eslintrc
    at Object.ModuleResolver.resolve (/Users/gajus/.nvm/versions/node/v6.1.0/lib/node_modules/eslint/lib/util/module-resolver.js:75:19)
    at resolve (/Users/gajus/.nvm/versions/node/v6.1.0/lib/node_modules/eslint/lib/config/config-file.js:473:33)
    at load (/Users/gajus/.nvm/versions/node/v6.1.0/lib/node_modules/eslint/lib/config/config-file.js:490:24)
    at /Users/gajus/.nvm/versions/node/v6.1.0/lib/node_modules/eslint/lib/config/config-file.js:386:36
    at Array.reduceRight (native)
    at applyExtends (/Users/gajus/.nvm/versions/node/v6.1.0/lib/node_modules/eslint/lib/config/config-file.js:363:28)
    at Object.load (/Users/gajus/.nvm/versions/node/v6.1.0/lib/node_modules/eslint/lib/config/config-file.js:525:22)
    at loadConfig (/Users/gajus/.nvm/versions/node/v6.1.0/lib/node_modules/eslint/lib/config.js:64:33)
    at getLocalConfig (/Users/gajus/.nvm/versio%

Expected result:

Lint code using eslint-config-canonical and its dependencies.

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Also possibly of interest to you: https://github.com/mysticatea/eslint-cli

[kaicataldo]

Appreciate you filling us in, @nzakas. I’m going to go ahead and close this. Thanks for the issue, @gajus.