Plugins fail to load when eslint is installed globally

I’ve authored a plugin eslint-no-exclusive-tests that warns if certain Jasmine methods are used (ddescribe, iit etc.)

When eslint is installed globally (as normal), a module loader error is thrown:

❯ eslint spec.js

module.js:340
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module 'eslint-plugin-no-exclusive-tests'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/eslint/lib/cli-engine.js:122:26
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at loadPlugins (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/eslint/lib/cli-engine.js:115:21)
    at processFile (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/eslint/lib/cli-engine.js:151:9)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/eslint/lib/cli-engine.js:222:30
    at walk (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/eslint/lib/util/traverse.js:82:9)

As the docs say to add eslint as a peerDependency, it gets installed locally to the project. If using the local eslint, the plugin runs as expected:

❯ ./node_modules/.bin/eslint spec.js

spec.js
   3:0   error  Unexpected ddescribe                       no-exclusive-tests/no-exclusive-tests

package.json:

...
  "devDependencies": {
    "eslint": "^0.8.0",
    "eslint-plugin-no-exclusive-tests": "^0.2.0"
...

.eslintrc

plugins:
  - no-exclusive-tests
rules:
  no-exclusive-tests/no-exclusive-tests: 2

[mysticatea]

I’d like to recommend https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-cli

[huangyingjie]

Hi all, I ran into this issue on vim with ‘syntastic’. Since I have to use local eslint, the following is my vim config:

let local_eslint = finddir('node_modules', '.;') . '/.bin/eslint'
if matchstr(local_eslint, "^\/\\w") == ''
    let local_eslint = getcwd() . "/" . local_eslint
endif
if executable(local_eslint)
    let g:syntastic_javascript_eslint_exec = local_eslint
endif

Now the effect between vim and ‘npm run eslint’ is exactly the same.