Set ignore path in .eslintrc

The ESLint docs show an example of how to use .gitignore as the ignore path.

This seems a very useful feature to me. However, my editors don’t support this.

It would be useful to specify the ignore-path in .eslintrc instead of as a command line parameter. This way editors or whatever tools using ESLint don’t have to supply this.

[jaydenseric]

You can set ignorePath within stylelint config. They went to the trouble to switch to node-ignore to facilitate pointing ignorePath to .gitignore.

As time goes on we find ourselves linting all the things. Having separate .gitignore, .eslintignore, .stylelintignore, etc. files that contain the same rules is tedious. Junior devs generally know to update .gitignore when messing with the project but always forget the separate linting configs.

It would be awesome if eslint supported setting ignorePath in config and not just via CLI, then 3 files would become one. The growing number of config files floating around our project roots is tiresome, internally we have a policy of consolidating all config possible in package.json.

The only thing preventing the dream of all linting config in package.json, all referencing .gitignore is this issue 😢

[onury]

@nzakas This should be re-opened. Multiple config files is not right.

BTW, referencing .gitignore does not solve it. You might have bundled dependencies to be commited to Git that are not to be linted.