Jshint: Complaining about arrow functions even with "esversion": "6"

Created on 23 Jun 2016 · 7Comments · Source: jshint/jshint

I'm using this:

Atom 1.7.3
linter 1.11.11
linter-jshint 2.1.0

My .jshintrc file only contains "esversion": "6" and it is located one level up my project's folder. I'm still getting the following message:

'arrow function syntax (=>)' is only available in ES6 (use 'esversion: 6')

Ideas?

Source

MtDalPizzol

Most helpful comment

I believe the problem here is that the value of "esversion" must be a number, not a string. Can you change your .jshintrc file for read as follows, and let us know if that fixes the problem for you?

{
  "esversion": 6
}

jugglinmike on 24 Jun 2016

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All 7 comments

.jshint or .jshintrc?

rwaldron on 23 Jun 2016

.jshintrc. Sorry for that...

MtDalPizzol on 24 Jun 2016

I believe the problem here is that the value of "esversion" must be a number, not a string. Can you change your .jshintrc file for read as follows, and let us know if that fixes the problem for you?

{
  "esversion": 6
}

jugglinmike on 24 Jun 2016

👍12

Thanks @jugglinmike , that did the trick...

MtDalPizzol on 24 Jun 2016

Glad to hear it!

For the record, I do not consider this a satisfactory state of affairs. JSHint should issue an error for invalid input, but also accept equivalent String values. I'm going to leave this issue "closed" because we already have one to track this problem: gh-2902.

jugglinmike on 24 Jun 2016

Hound CI Error 'arrow function syntax (=>)' is only available in ES6 (use 'esversion: 6'). I am using eslintrc