@matrixai/lint

js-lint

A batteries-included, TypeScript-aware linting CLI and ESLint flat config bundle for use in Matrix AI JavaScript/TypeScript projects.

• Type-aware linting powered by @typescript-eslint using one or more tsconfig.json files
• Built-in support for React, Tailwind, JSX a11y, Prettier, and Matrix AI custom rules
• Supports Prettier formatting for Markdown and ShellCheck for shell scripts
• Single command to lint JavaScript/TypeScript, Markdown, and shell scripts
• Customizable via matrixai-lint-config.json and extensible with your own ESLint config
• CLI options to override config and enable auto-fix

Installation

npm install --save-dev @matrixai/lint

Usage

matrixai-lint

To run with autofix:

matrixai-lint --fix

CLI Options

Flag	Description
(no flag)	Uses built-in Matrix AI ESLint config
--fix	Enables auto-fixing via ESLint and Prettier
--user-config	Uses detected `eslint.config.[js,mjs,cjs,ts] from the project root if found
--config <path>	Explicitly use a custom ESLint config file

Examples

matrixai-lint --fix
matrixai-lint --user-config
matrixai-lint --config ./eslint.config.js --fix

TypeScript Support

The linter is TypeScript-aware and requires a tsconfig.json to determine which files to lint and how to parse them.

By default:

• It looks for tsconfig.json in the project root
• Files are selected based on the include and exclude fields in the tsconfig

Working with multiple tsconfigs

If your project uses more than one tsconfig.json or doesn't have one at the root, you can configure the linter using a matrixai-lint-config.json file at the root:

{
  "tsconfigPaths": ["./tsconfig.base.json", "./packages/core/tsconfig.json"],
  "forceInclude": ["scripts", "src/overrides"]
}

Field	Type	Description
tsconfigPaths	string[]	One or more paths to tsconfig.json files
forceInclude	string[]	Paths to always include, even if excluded by tsconfig (must be included by at least one)

⚠ If a path in forceInclude is not included in any of the tsconfigPaths, TypeScript will throw a parsing error.

ESLint Config Override

You can use your own ESLint config by one of the following methods:

1. Inline Custom Config

matrixai-lint --config ./eslint.config.js

2. Auto-detect with --user-config

matrixai-lint --user-config

This will look for a valid eslint.config file in the project root.

Valid config filenames:

• eslint.config.js
• eslint.config.cjs
• eslint.config.mjs
• eslint.config.ts

3. Extend the base config

// eslint.config.js
import matrixai from '@matrixai/lint/config';

export default [
  ...matrixai,
  {
    rules: {
      '@typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any': 'error',
      'no-console': 'off',
    },
  },
];

Development

Run nix develop, and once you're inside, you can use:

# install (or reinstall packages from package.json)
npm install
# build the dist
npm run build
# run the repl (this allows you to import from ./src)
npm run tsx
# run the tests
npm run test
# lint the source code
npm run lint
# automatically fix the source
npm run lintfix

Docs Generation

npm run docs

See the docs at: https://matrixai.github.io/js-lint/

Publishing

Publishing is handled automatically by the staging pipeline.

Prerelease:

# npm login
npm version prepatch --preid alpha # premajor/preminor/prepatch
git push --follow-tags

Release:

# npm login
npm version patch # major/minor/patch
git push --follow-tags

Manually:

# npm login
npm version patch # major/minor/patch
npm run build
npm publish --access public
git push
git push --tags