I've just started using eslint. I initialized it and started fixing problems it pointed out. One problem, however, it shouldn't complain about:
const data = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, _FILENAME));
The error is:
error '__dirname' is not defined
I did some searching and found that when you add --experimental to the node command that __dirname is not defined. This, however, isn't the case for me. I'm not running node with the --experimental flag.
See these questions:
This is happening because ESLint does not know that your code is supposed to be used in Node.js: __dirname is not defined in browsers and also not defined in ES modules. To tell ESLint that your code will run in Node.js as a CommonJS module, open your ESLint config and set node: true in the env section. If you are using .eslintrc.json:
{
"env": {
"node": true
}
}
There are also other ways to specify environments, they are explained in the related documentation.
I ran into the same. Adding this to .eslintrc.json fixed it for me:
"globals": {
"__dirname": true
}
Got the idea from this similar question about the process global: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56777068/936907