(Alpha) JavaScript and TypeScript Rules

Mar 1, 2023

This release adds many new JavaScript and TypeScript rules using Sourcery’s (alpha-stage) multi-language functionality.

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Full Changelog

Added

• Docs: How To Use Sourcery For Code Reviews?
• Handle skip comments in JavaScript
• no-eval JavaScript rule
• remove-redundant-boolean JavaScript rule
• use-braces JavaScript rule
• dont-negate-is-instanceof-operands JavaScript rule
• remove-unreachable-code JavaScript rule
• misplaced-break-or-continue JavaScript rule
• dont-shadow-arguments JavaScript rule
• remove-redundant-if-statement JavaScript rule
• dont-reassign-parameters JavaScript rule
• inline-immediately-returned-variable JavaScript rule
• avoid-function-declarations-in-blocks JavaScript rule
• Some refactorings like simplify-boolean-comparison will now trigger in match-case guard clauses
• possible-incorrect-bitwise-operator JavaScript rule
• dont-self-assign-variables JavaScript rule
• generators-should-yield JavaScript rule
• throw-new-errors JavaScript rule
• remove-redundant-slice-index JavaScript rule
• only-delete-object-properties JavaScript rule
• dont-use-with JavaScript rule
• dont-concatenate-string-literals JavaScript rule
• no-new-symbol JavaScript rule
• return-outside-function JavaScript rule
• yield-outside-generator JavaScript rule
• avoid-infinite-loops JavaScript rule

Changed

• Only show a maximum of 3 lines of code for comments in the CLI for Javascript rules
• Extended use-array-literal to handle arguments
• use-object-destructuring and combine-object-destructure extended to also work for let statements
• Added hover for JavaScript diagnostics

Fixed

• issue with replacement of subsequent indented new lines in JavaScript
• issue where JavaScript comments showed code actions that did nothing
• issue with partially-applied use-braces refactoring
• remove-dict-keys no longer proposed when the target has multiple values
• Correctly report number of scanned files even if they have no issues
• merge_assign_and_aug_assign can no longer incorrectly lead to access to a variable not assigned yet
• Prevent dict-literal, list-literal and remove-unnecessary-cast from incorrectly triggering in match-case patterns