Eslint cannot find global install

Hi there,

So this is something that seems to have happened quite recently. I have installed eslint and eslint-plugin-react globally using npm i -g

I have an .eslintrc file in my home folder like so:

{
  "env": {
    "browser": true,
    "commonjs": true,
    "es6": true,
    "node": true
  },
  "plugins": [
    "react"
  ],
  "extends": ["eslint:recommended", "plugin:react/recommended"],
  "globals": {
    "$": true
  },
  "parser": "babel-eslint",
  "parserOptions": {
    "sourceType": "module",
    "ecmaFeatures": {
      "jsx": true,
      "modules": true
    }
  },
  "rules": {
    "brace-style": "error",
    "camelcase": ["error", { "properties": "never" }],
    "comma-dangle": ["error", "never"],
    "func-call-spacing": ["error", "never"],
    "eqeqeq": "warn",
    "indent": [ "error", 2, { "SwitchCase": 1 } ],
    "key-spacing": [ "error", { "beforeColon": false } ],
    "no-console": "off",
    "no-fallthrough": "warn",
    "prefer-const": "error",
    "quotes": [ "error", "single" ],
    "semi": [ "error", "never" ],
    "react/prop-types": [ 0 ]
  }
}

I get the following error when I try to lint a file from the command line:

Oops! Something went wrong! :(

ESLint: 6.0.1.

ESLint couldn't find the plugin "eslint-plugin-react".

(The package "eslint-plugin-react" was not found when loaded as a Node module from the directory "/path/to/project/folder".)

It's likely that the plugin isn't installed correctly. Try reinstalling by running the following:

    npm install eslint-plugin-react@latest --save-dev

The plugin "eslint-plugin-react" was referenced from the config file in "PersonalConfig".

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

I appreciate I could probably fix the issue by installing the plugin to devDependencies, but I would like to keep it global.

Any ideas?

[ljharb]

@jekusz if every developer isn’t forced to use the linter, then no developer should be permitted to. Projects that aren’t linted, shouldn’t be. (all projects should, of course, be linted)

[jektvik]

Why was this closed ? I’ve just run into the very same issue. The use case is this, the company doesn’t want to add linting to the code repo, but I still want it to run whenever I’m working on the code-base to get whatver utility I can out of it. Currently looking for a way to tell eslint to look for plugins (react) in the global install folder.