camel_case

ESLint rule for enforcing camelCame names but allowing _ in property names

We want to use camelCase in variable names, but want to still allow underscores in JSON objects:

var goodObject = {
  property_name: 1,
  another_property: 2
};

jshint has camelcase rule that forces EVERY name to be camelCased

$ jshint index.js
index.js: line 2, col 0, Identifier 'property_name' is not in camel case.
index.js: line 3, col 0, Identifier 'another_property' is not in camel case.
2 errors

There are manual workarounds:

• disable this specific rule using // jshint ignore:lint or // jshint -W106
• write property names using quotes, for example 'property_name': 1

Both workarounds are hacky.

I wrote a more flexible rule called camel_case for eslint. The rule looks one character after the identifier to see if it is followed by colon : character. If yes, this is a property name inside an object, and underscore character _ is allowed.

running

Place camel_case.js into local folder, pass to eslint using --rulesdir option. Enable camel_case rule from .eslintrc file

// .eslintrc
{
  // 0 - turn rule off
  // 1 - rule generates warnings
  // 2 - rule generates errors
  "rules": {
    "camel_case": 2,
    // other rules
  }
}
// run
eslint index.js --rulesdir .

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Author: Gleb Bahmutov © 2014

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