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confusing-browser-globals
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A curated list of browser globals that commonly cause confusion and are not recommended to use without an explicit window.
qualifier.
Some global variables in browser are likely to be used by people without the intent of using them as globals, such as status
, name
, event
, etc.
For example:
handleClick() { // missing `event` argument
this.setState({
text: event.target.value // uses the `event` global: oops!
});
}
This package exports a list of globals that are often used by mistake. You can feed this list to a static analysis tool like ESLint to prevent their usage without an explicit window.
qualifier.
npm install --save confusing-browser-globals
If you use Create React App, you don't need to configure anything, as this rule is already included in the default eslint-config-react-app
preset.
If you maintain your own ESLint configuration, you can do this:
const restrictedGlobals = require('confusing-browser-globals');
module.exports = {
rules: {
'no-restricted-globals': ['error'].concat(restrictedGlobals),
},
};
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A list of browser globals that are often used by mistake instead of local variables
The npm package confusing-browser-globals receives a total of 8,847,333 weekly downloads. As such, confusing-browser-globals popularity was classified as popular.
We found that confusing-browser-globals demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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