Add Yarn and pnpm support in eslint --init

[mateushnsoares]

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name: "Add yarn support for --init"
about: Request a change that is not a bug fix, rule change, or new rule
title: 'Add yarn support for --init'
labels: enhancement, triage, core
assignees: ''

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The version of ESLint you are using.

7.8.1

The problem you want to solve.

I'm 👎 on adding this in. Yarn is a popular package manager, but it's not an official one. There're a bunch of other package managers out there. If the user chose to use yarn as an NPM replacement (which is perfectly fine), they should be ready to do some tweaking by hands.

Originally posted by @ilyavolodin in eslint/eslint#9023 (comment)

The yarn is not official but is more used of NPM. And I don't see a problem on support Yarn ?? I really don't understand why closed THIS PR

Your take on the correct solution to problem.

Add yarn and pnpm support.

Are you willing to submit a pull request to implement this change?

No

[anikethsaha]

Thanks for the issue.

I think we can ask the user itself which package manager to use. That means one more prompt.

[kaicataldo]

Re-evaluating this now seems prudent, but please fill out the requested issue template. The current tone and state of this issue doesn't give us much room to have a discussion.

[mateushnsoares]

Sorry I use reply of the comment I will edit

[mateushnsoares]

@kaicataldo . I edited, Sorry for the previous tone 😕

[kaicataldo]

Thank you. Adding a question about whether yarn or npm should be used in --init makes sense to me.

[snitin315]

Can I work on this issue?

[kaicataldo]

@snitin315 I'd recommend waiting until the team has reached consensus on this feature's inclusion so that there isn't any throwaway work. That being said, a PR can sometimes make things easier to evaluate!

[anikethsaha]

Is it required for this PR to go through RFC?

[kaicataldo]

@anikethsaha This seems like a small enough change to me that it wouldn't warrant an RFC.

[snitin315]

I will send a PR soon then.

[nzakas]

TSC Summary: This proposal seeks to add a question to --init asking if dependencies should be installed with npm or yarn.

TSC Question: Shall we accept this proposal?

[btmills]

We approved this change in today's TSC meeting. To reduce complexity, --init shouldn't try to guess the correct package manager. It should ask Which package manager does your project use? with npm as the default and yarn as an option. @snitin315 hopefully that's the answer you needed to finish up eslint/eslint#13756! 🚀

[snitin315]

@btmills thanks! I will update the corresponding PR.

[eslint-deprecated]

Unfortunately, it looks like there wasn't enough interest from the team
or community to implement this change. While we wish we'd be able to
accommodate everyone's requests, we do need to prioritize. We've found
that accepted issues failing to be implemented after 90 days tend to
never be implemented, and as such, we close those issues.
This doesn't mean the idea isn't interesting or useful, just that it's
not something the team can commit to.

Thanks for contributing to ESLint and we appreciate your understanding.

[nzakas]

Reopening because of active PR.

[ashishbinu]

Hey , is anyone still working on this? It would be great if there is also pnpm support along with yarn.

If no one is working on this I can give it a shot.

[nzakas]

There is an active PR: eslint/eslint#13756

[mdjermanovic]

We have decided to postpone yarn support until the --init functionality gets extracted into a separate package (eslint/rfcs#58), for the reasons described in eslint/eslint#13756.

[brettz9]

Given that the request also asked for pnpm (though I don't know if that part has been accepted), perhaps the issue can be renamed to ensure that support is also being tracked?

[nzakas]

Done

[ghost]

Just installed eslint and ran --init. After going through the prompts it starting downloading packages without my permission from npm. I use pnpm. I'm not saying add pnpm support (pnpm auto detects if other package managers install things and will prompt to fix it) rather don't auto start the installation. Uninstalled.

[mdjermanovic]

Just installed eslint and ran --init. After going through the prompts it starting downloading packages without my permission from npm. I use pnpm. I'm not saying add pnpm support (pnpm auto detects if other package managers install things and will prompt to fix it) rather don't auto start the installation. Uninstalled.

@sharedrory can you please submit a bug report with steps that lead to downloading packages without your permission?

That is not intended behavior. I tried one path, and there was a step asking for confirmation to install packages with npm:

√ How would you like to use ESLint? · style
√ What type of modules does your project use? · esm
√ Which framework does your project use? · react
√ Does your project use TypeScript? · No / Yes
√ Where does your code run? · browser
√ How would you like to define a style for your project? · guide
√ Which style guide do you want to follow? · airbnb
√ What format do you want your config file to be in? · JavaScript
Checking peerDependencies of eslint-config-airbnb@latest
The config that you've selected requires the following dependencies:

eslint-plugin-react@^7.21.5 eslint-config-airbnb@latest eslint@^5.16.0 || ^6.8.0 || ^7.2.0 eslint-plugin-import@^2.22.1 eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y@^6.4.1 eslint-plugin-react-hooks@^4 || ^3 || ^2.3.0 || ^1.7.0
? Would you like to install them now with npm? » No / Yes

[stereokai]

Any news about this? Looks like all the PRs/feats have been closed

[nzakas]

When there are updates they will be posted on this issue.

[stereokai]

Gotcha. Keeping my fingers crossed! ;)

[aladdin-add]

this is unblocked.

@snitin315 are you still interested in working on this? 😄

[snitin315]

@aladdin-add No, not at the moment.

[harish-sethuraman]

I'd like to pick this up 😄