Automatic detection of preconfigured eslint packages

Feature Request: I would love to have automatic detection of the most common “packaged eslint” flavors, specifically standard and xo.

I often contribute to many packages which uses both Standard and XO. My current setup is just to have the StandardJS package installed in VS Code, since that is what I use for my own projects. But that makes basically every line being marked red when contributing to a package using the XO eslint package.

My idea of the ultimate setup would be if this module could detect whenever one of the preconfigured eslint packages is being used in a project, and then load up that config.

In practice, I think this would be easiest to achieve by maintaining a list of packages to look for in the devDependencies, and a corresponding eslint-config for that package.

const eslintPackages = new Map([
  ['happiness', 'eslint-config-happiness'],
  ['semistandard', 'eslint-config-semistandard'],
  ['standard', 'eslint-config-standard'],
  ['xo', 'eslint-config-xo']
])

If this is something that is wanted, I would be happy to help implement it. If you think that this is out of scope for this module, I would totally understand that.

Thanks!

[dbaeumer]

Thanks for the nice explanation. I wasn’t aware of eslint -c standard. The ESLint extension however doesn’t spawn an eslint process on every linting run. It basically uses eslint as a library and programs against the Node API provided (https://eslint.org/docs/developer-guide/nodejs-api#cliengine). From reading through the documentation your approach should be doable using the configFile option. To test this you could set `“eslint.options.configFile”: “standard” and see what happens.

I am open to a PR that implements this be checking the content of the package.json file.

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