Going flat with ESLint

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Josh Goldberg joins Nick & Chris to discuss the latest updates from ESLint, typescript-eslint & the new flat config format. They also discuss creating reusable configs & project generators before pivoting to talk about a new conference focused on developer tooling. Finally, Chris & Josh talk about the past, present & future of Mocha.

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Sponsors:

• Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database.

Featuring:

• Josh Goldberg – GitHub, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• ESLint’s new config system
• Announcing typescript-eslint v8 Beta
• dprint
• Yeoman
• Squiggle Conf
• eslint-plugin-eslint-comments
• JavaScript’s with keyword
• Mocha
• eslint-nibble
• create-typescript-app

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. A hoy hoy (00:00:39)

3. Welcoming back Josh (00:01:25)

4. Boneskull's face (00:03:25)

5. Definitely Typed (00:03:49)

6. Changes to ESLint (00:06:09)

7. Why make this change? (00:10:21)

8. That magic (00:13:52)

9. Slow migration (00:16:01)

10. Keeping page (00:18:02)

11. Plugins (00:20:52)

12. Neighboring projects (00:23:02)

13. Resting grouch face (00:24:18)

14. Sponsor: Neon (00:24:50)

https://neon.tech/enterprise

15. create-typescript-app (00:28:23)

16. Dealing with with (00:39:20)

17. Type-aware linting (00:44:46)

18. Squiggle Conf (00:51:49)

https://squiggleconf.com

19. Nick's conf advice (00:53:28)

20. Maintaining Mocha (00:56:29)

21. Loaders with Mocha (01:06:38)

22. tsimp (01:08:26)

23. What's next for Josh (01:12:15)

24. Obligatory AI chapter (01:15:57)

25. Closing time (01:19:00)

26. Next up on the pod (01:20:04)