Set ignore path in .eslintrc

[remcohaszing]

The ESLint docs show an example of how to use .gitignore as the ignore path.

This seems a very useful feature to me. However, my editors don't support this.

It would be useful to specify the ignore-path in .eslintrc instead of as a command line parameter. This way editors or whatever tools using ESLint don't have to supply this.

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[lo1tuma]

I don’t think this is possible, because you can have multiple .eslintrc files but only one ignore file.

[ilyavolodin]

Also .eslintrc's are constructed during traversing, so being able to specify it in .eslintrc would not be possible at all. You can, however, specify ignore pattern (or ignore path) on CLI.

[nzakas]

We investigated this before and determined it would be a lot of work for something that we already have via .eslintignore. I'd suggestion contacting the editor/plugin author to ask them to add support for .eslintignore.

[jaydenseric]

You can set ignorePath within stylelint config. They went to the trouble to switch to node-ignore to facilitate pointing ignorePath to .gitignore.

As time goes on we find ourselves linting all the things. Having separate .gitignore, .eslintignore, .stylelintignore, etc. files that contain the same rules is tedious. Junior devs generally know to update .gitignore when messing with the project but always forget the separate linting configs.

It would be awesome if eslint supported setting ignorePath in config and not just via CLI, then 3 files would become one. The growing number of config files floating around our project roots is tiresome, internally we have a policy of consolidating all config possible in package.json.

The only thing preventing the dream of all linting config in package.json, all referencing .gitignore is this issue 😢

[moos]

Would be very nice to have!

[wouterrutgers]

This has my upvote!

[michaeljonathanblack]

Wish this wasn't closed. We've managed to wrangle all of our dotfiles into their own directory except for this little guy.

[justin808]

You got my upvote!

[damianobarbati]

any news on this? How can I tell eslint to ignore the same files specified in my .gitignore in the package.json eslintConfig entry?

[onury]

@nzakas This should be re-opened. Multiple config files is not right.

BTW, referencing .gitignore does not solve it. You might have bundled dependencies to be commited to Git that are not to be linted.

[timhuff]

I came here looking for a ignore property for .eslintrc.js. It hadn't occurred to me that I should make it the same as my .gitignore file. If anyone wants to do this, I believe running ln -s .gitignore .eslintignore in project root should do the trick.