The new SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is currently in developer preview. In order to really get into it and start making great new web parts a developer needs to get a handle on TypeScript. The initial preview iteration of the SPFx shipped with very strict linting rules (tslint) and it forced (in)experienced developers to follow many best practices regarding not just typescript but es6/es2015 conventions as well. This was done by reporting linting errors as build failures as part of the Glup build chain.
Later drops of the SharePoint Framework have relaxed these linting rules but it is still less than ideal only being prompted about these issues at transpile/compile-time. The set of linting rules that is used in the build process is defined in a tslint.json file within the root config folder.
When it comes to developing SPFx web parts I have found Visual Studio Code to be great, as it is lightweight has an integrated terminal and github support and has extensions – noticeably a nice tslint extension. Unfortunately this extension does not support the JSON format nor all of the rules specified in tslint file provided by SPFx generator.
So here it is, my SPFx tslint file for use in VS Code. Just drop this file in the root of your src directory.
The following file is based on a core set of rules from SPFx Drop 2 with the incompatible rules removed and I’ve taken some liberty by adding my own preferred rules. Of course you can change these as you need, a list of the rules which the extension supports can be found here. I have also included an ‘extended’ version of the tslint file that is provided in the config folder further below.
tslint.json in the src folder:
tslint.json in the config folder:
Paul.