ESLint Config Migration: Remove strict-boolean-expressions rule #1050
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Summary
This is a PR that should be merged into #1024 and incrementally addresses #842.
This PR turns off the
@typescript-eslint/strict-boolean-expressions
rule. While on the surface the intention of the rule makes sense ("prevent implicit casting to Boolean of conditional expressions"), in practice this rule gets in the way.Consider the following real example from this code base, from
ExpressReceiver.spec.ts
:The error raised by this line is:
Essentially, any values taking part in a short-circuit logical operation (like
||
or&&
) must be a boolean. Therefore, the common pattern seen in JS/TS of using||
as a means of declaring default values would always be invalid.My suggestions is to remove this rule, as it does not seem to allow for customization to avoid the above scenario, but what does everyone else think?
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