eslint-config-prettier is used but not listed in peerDependencies or devDependencies

What version of eslint-plugin-prettier are you using?

3.0.1

Please paste any applicable config files that you’re using (e.g. .prettierrc or .eslintrc files)

{
  "extends": [
    "eslint:recommended",
    "plugin:prettier/recommended"
  ],
}

What did you expect to happen?

When I install eslint-plugin-prettier I expect that eslint-config-prettier referenced in recommended settings will be installed automatically (or at least will appear in peerDependencies).

What actually happened?

I have to manually install eslint-config-prettier.

[not-an-aardvark]

There are some downsides to our current approach – ESLint usually loads shareable configs relative to the config that extends them, so it would attempt to resolve eslint-config-prettier from the location of eslint-plugin-prettier rather than from the user’s project. As a result, under some package management setups (e.g. Yarn Plug n’ Play) ESLint could fail to find the eslint-config-prettier package even though the user installed it in their project.

A solution would be to add eslint-plugin-prettier as a dependency rather than as a peerDependency; this would avoid the need for the user to manually install it, although it would still add unnecessary installation time in some cases. The user would no longer be able to customize the version of eslint-config-prettier that gets used through this plugin, although if they want customization they could just install their own version of eslint-plugin-prettier.

[kirill-konshin]

Agree, having eslint-config-prettier in dependencies will solve the issue. I highly doubt that somebody would want to have own version of it, most likely if there’s something important in a new version then eslint-plugin-prettier would already have the updated one.

Anyways, sudden death because of a missing dependency not listed anywhere except in readme is a no go 😦