Bug: Can't install without prompts

[abitrolly]

Environment

Node version: v16.17.1
npm version: 8.15.0
Local ESLint version:
Global ESLint version:
Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

What parser are you using?

Default (Espree)

What did you do?

I am trying to install ESLint with all defaults be running npm init with --yes option, but it doesn't work.

$ npm init --yes @eslint/config
? How would you like to use ESLint? … 
  To check syntax only
▸ To check syntax and find problems
  To check syntax, find problems, and enforce code style<!-- Paste your code here -->

What did you expect to happen?

All options are chosen by default.

What actually happened?

Command hangs waiting for input.

Participation

• I am willing to submit a pull request for this issue.

Additional comments

No response

[mdjermanovic]

Hi @abitrolly, thanks for the issue!

This was discussed in #23 and we decided not to support --yes for the reasons described in the linked issue thread.

[abitrolly]

@mdjermanovic understood. From #23.

@aladdin-add's original use case, clarified in #23 (comment), was to have a non-interactive setup that could be run in an unsupervised scenario.

So what is the official way to install ESLint non-interactively without --yes? The only thing that comes to my mind is to throw in some temporary config. I don't know.

[mdjermanovic]

You can install eslint package:

npm install eslint --save-dev

Then, you should add a config file. A simple config to lint es5 browser scripts can be:

// .eslintrc.js
module.exports = {
    extends: ["eslint:recommended"],
    env: {
        browser: true
    }
};

This enables recommended built-in rules and enables browser globals.