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no-restricted-devDependencies

Enabling this rule will result in an error being generated if one of the dependencies in devDependencies is equal to one of the values in the array of restricted dependencies.

Example .npmpackagejsonlintrc configuration​

{
  "rules": {
    "no-restricted-devDependencies": ["error", [
      "grunt-npm-package-json-lint",
      "@types/*"
    ]]
  }
}

Rule Details​

Incorrect example(s)​

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "grunt-npm-package-json-lint": "^0.3.0"
  }
}
{
  "devDependencies": {
    "@types/node": "^0.3.0"
  }
}

Correct example(s)​

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "gulp-npm-package-json-lint": "^0.3.0"
  }
}

Shorthand for disabling the rule in .npmpackagejsonlintrc configuration​

{
  "rules": {
    "no-restricted-devDependencies": "off"
  }
}

History​

  • Improved messaging when an invalid configuration is detected in version 6.3.0
  • Allow for wildcard dependency restrictions. Add * to the end of the dependency string to indicate a wildcard search. This will result in a lint issue if the dependency starts with the string before the *. Added in 4.2.0.
  • Renamed from devDependencies-invalid-dependencies to no-restricted-devDependencies in version 1.0.0
  • Introduced in version 0.1.0