17 KiB
		
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
			
		
		
	
	eslint-plugin-jsdoc
JSDoc linting rules for ESLint.
Installation
Install ESLint either locally or globally.
npm install --save-dev eslint
If you have installed ESLint globally, you have to install JSDoc plugin
globally too. Otherwise, install it locally.
npm install --save-dev eslint-plugin-jsdoc
Configuration
Flat config
import jsdoc from 'eslint-plugin-jsdoc';
const config = [
  // configuration included in plugin
  jsdoc.configs['flat/recommended'],
  // other configuration objects...
  {
    files: ['**/*.js'],
    plugins: {
      jsdoc,
    },
    rules: {
      'jsdoc/require-description': 'warn'
    }
  }
];
export default config;
eslintrc
Add plugins section to .eslintrc.*
and specify eslint-plugin-jsdoc as a plugin.
{
    "plugins": [
        "jsdoc"
    ]
}
Finally, enable all of the rules that you would like to use.
{
    "rules": {
        "jsdoc/check-access": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/check-alignment": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/check-examples": 1,
        "jsdoc/check-indentation": 1,
        "jsdoc/check-line-alignment": 1,
        "jsdoc/check-param-names": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/check-template-names": 1,
        "jsdoc/check-property-names": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/check-syntax": 1,
        "jsdoc/check-tag-names": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/check-types": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/check-values": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/empty-tags": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/implements-on-classes": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/informative-docs": 1,
        "jsdoc/match-description": 1,
        "jsdoc/multiline-blocks": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/no-bad-blocks": 1,
        "jsdoc/no-blank-block-descriptions": 1,
        "jsdoc/no-defaults": 1,
        "jsdoc/no-missing-syntax": 1,
        "jsdoc/no-multi-asterisks": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/no-restricted-syntax": 1,
        "jsdoc/no-types": 1,
        "jsdoc/no-undefined-types": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/require-asterisk-prefix": 1,
        "jsdoc/require-description": 1,
        "jsdoc/require-description-complete-sentence": 1,
        "jsdoc/require-example": 1,
        "jsdoc/require-file-overview": 1,
        "jsdoc/require-hyphen-before-param-description": 1,
        "jsdoc/require-jsdoc": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/require-param": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/require-param-description": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/require-param-name": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/require-param-type": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/require-property": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/require-property-description": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/require-property-name": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/require-property-type": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/require-returns": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/require-returns-check": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/require-returns-description": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/require-returns-type": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/require-template": 1,
        "jsdoc/require-throws": 1,
        "jsdoc/require-yields": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/require-yields-check": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/sort-tags": 1,
        "jsdoc/tag-lines": 1, // Recommended
        "jsdoc/valid-types": 1 // Recommended
    }
}
Or you can simply add the following to .eslintrc.*, which enables the rules commented above as "recommended":
{
  "extends": ["plugin:jsdoc/recommended"]
}
You can then selectively add to or override the recommended rules.
Alternatively, if you wish to have all linting issues reported as failing errors, you may use the "recommended-error" config:
{
  "extends": ["plugin:jsdoc/recommended-error"]
}
If you plan to use TypeScript syntax (and not just "typescript"
mode to indicate the JSDoc flavor is TypeScript), you can use:
{
  "extends": ["plugin:jsdoc/recommended-typescript"]
}
...or to report with failing errors instead of mere warnings:
{
  "extends": ["plugin:jsdoc/recommended-typescript-error"]
}
If you are not using TypeScript syntax (your source files are still .js files)
but you are using the TypeScript flavor within JSDoc (i.e., the default
"typescript" mode in eslint-plugin-jsdoc) and you are perhaps using
allowJs and checkJs options of TypeScript's tsconfig.json), you may
use:
{
  "extends": ["plugin:jsdoc/recommended-typescript-flavor"]
}
...or to report with failing errors instead of mere warnings:
{
  "extends": ["plugin:jsdoc/recommended-typescript-flavor-error"]
}
Options
Rules may, as per the ESLint user guide, have their own individual options. In eslint-plugin-jsdoc, a few options,
such as, exemptedBy and contexts, may be used across different rules.
eslint-plugin-jsdoc options, if present, are generally in the form of an
object supplied as the second argument in an array after the error level
(any exceptions to this format are explained within that rule's docs).
// `.eslintrc.js`
{
  rules: {
    'jsdoc/require-example': [
        // The Error level should be `error`, `warn`, or `off` (or 2, 1, or 0)
        'error',
        // The options vary by rule, but are generally added to an options
        //  object as follows:
        {
          checkConstructors: true,
          exemptedBy: ['type']
        }
    ]
  }
}
Settings
See Settings.
Advanced
See Advanced.
Processors
See our @example and other item processors.
Rules
Problems reported by rules which have a wrench 🔧 below can be fixed automatically by running ESLint on the command line with --fix option.
Note that a number of fixable rules have an enableFixer option which can
be set to false to disable the fixer (or in the case of check-param-names,
check-property-names, and no-blank-blocks, set to true to enable a
non-default-recommended fixer).
| recommended | fixable | rule | description | 
|---|---|---|---|
| ✔️ | check-access | Enforces valid @accesstags | |
| ✔️ | 🔧 | check-alignment | Enforces alignment of JSDoc block asterisks | 
| check-examples | Linting of JavaScript within @example | ||
| check-indentation | Checks for invalid padding inside JSDoc blocks | ||
| 🔧 | check-line-alignment | Reports invalid alignment of JSDoc block lines. | |
| ✔️ | 🔧 | check-param-names | Checks for dupe @paramnames, that nested param names have roots, and that parameter names in function declarations match jsdoc param names. | 
| ✔️ | 🔧 | check-property-names | Checks for dupe @propertynames, that nested property names have roots | 
| check-syntax | Reports use against current mode (currently only prohibits Closure-specific syntax) | ||
| ✔️ | 🔧 | check-tag-names | Reports invalid jsdoc (block) tag names | 
| check-template-names | Checks that any @templatenames are actually used in the connected@typedefor type alias. | ||
| ✔️ | 🔧 | check-types | Reports types deemed invalid (customizable and with defaults, for preventing and/or recommending replacements) | 
| ✔️ | check-values | Checks for expected content within some miscellaneous tags ( @version,@since,@license,@author) | |
| convert-to-jsdoc-comments | Converts line and block comments preceding or following specified nodes into JSDoc comments | ||
| ✔️ | 🔧 | empty-tags | Checks tags that are expected to be empty (e.g., @abstractor@async), reporting if they have content | 
| ✔️ | implements-on-classes | Prohibits use of @implementson non-constructor functions (to enforce the tag only being used on classes/constructors) | |
| informative-docs | Reports on JSDoc texts that serve only to restate their attached name. | ||
| match-description | Defines customizable regular expression rules for your tag descriptions | ||
| 🔧 | match-name | Reports the name portion of a JSDoc tag if matching or not matching a given regular expression | |
| ✔️ | 🔧 | multiline-blocks | Controls how and whether jsdoc blocks can be expressed as single or multiple line blocks | 
| 🔧 | no-bad-blocks | This rule checks for multi-line-style comments which fail to meet the criteria of a jsdoc block | |
| 🔧 | no-blank-block-descriptions | If tags are present, this rule will prevent empty lines in the block description. If no tags are present, this rule will prevent extra empty lines in the block description. | |
| 🔧 | no-blank-blocks | Reports and optionally removes blocks with whitespace only | |
| ✔️ | 🔧 | no-defaults | This rule reports defaults being used on the relevant portion of @paramor@default | 
| no-missing-syntax | This rule lets you report if certain always expected comment structures are missing. | ||
| ✔️ | 🔧 | no-multi-asterisks | Prevents use of multiple asterisks at the beginning of lines | 
| no-restricted-syntax | Reports when certain comment structures are present | ||
| On in TS | 🔧 | no-types | Prohibits types on @paramor@returns(redundant with TypeScript) | 
| ✔️ (off in TS and TS flavor) | no-undefined-types | Besides some expected built-in types, prohibits any types not specified as globals or within @typedef | |
| 🔧 | require-asterisk-prefix | Requires that each JSDoc line starts with an * | |
| require-description | Requires that all functions (and potentially other contexts) have a description. | ||
| 🔧 | require-description-complete-sentence | Requires that block description, explicit @description, and@param/@returnstag descriptions are written in complete sentences | |
| 🔧 | require-example | Requires that all functions (and potentially other contexts) have examples. | |
| require-file-overview | By default, requires a single @filetag at the beginning of each linted file | ||
| 🔧 | require-hyphen-before-param-description | Requires a hyphen before @paramdescriptions (and optionally before@propertydescriptions) | |
| ✔️ | 🔧 | require-jsdoc | Checks for presence of jsdoc comments, on functions and potentially other contexts (optionally limited to exports). | 
| ✔️ | 🔧 | require-param | Requires that all function parameters are documented with a @paramtag. | 
| ✔️ | require-param-description | Requires that each @paramtag has adescriptionvalue. | |
| ✔️ | require-param-name | Requires that all @paramtags have names. | |
| ✔️ (off in TS) | require-param-type | Requires that each @paramtag has a type value (within curly brackets). | |
| ✔️ | 🔧 | require-property | Requires that all @typedefand@namespacetags have@propertytags when their type is a plainobject,Object, orPlainObject. | 
| ✔️ | require-property-description | Requires that each @propertytag has adescriptionvalue. | |
| ✔️ | require-property-name | Requires that all @propertytags have names. | |
| ✔️ (off in TS) | require-property-type | Requires that each @propertytag has a type value (within curly brackets). | |
| ✔️ | require-returns | Requires that return statements are documented. | |
| ✔️ | require-returns-check | Requires a return statement be present in a function body if a @returnstag is specified in the jsdoc comment block (and reports if multiple@returnstags are present). | |
| ✔️ | require-returns-description | Requires that the @returnstag has adescriptionvalue (not includingvoid/undefinedtype returns). | |
| ✔️ (off in TS) | require-returns-type | Requires that @returnstag has a type value (in curly brackets). | |
| require-template | Requires @templatetags be present when type parameters are used. | ||
| require-throws | Requires that throw statements are documented | ||
| ✔️ | require-yields | Requires that yields are documented | |
| ✔️ | require-yields-check | Ensures that if a @yieldsis present that ayield(oryieldwith a value) is present in the function body (or that if a@nextis present that there is ayieldwith a return value present) | |
| sort-tags | Sorts tags by a specified sequence according to tag name, optionally adding line breaks between tag groups | ||
| ✔️ | 🔧 | tag-lines | Enforces lines (or no lines) between tags | 
| 🔧 | text-escaping | This rule can auto-escape certain characters that are input within block and tag descriptions | |
| ✔️ | valid-types | Requires all types/namepaths to be valid JSDoc, Closure compiler, or TypeScript types (configurable in settings) |