eslint-plugin-expect-type

ESLint plugin with ^? Twoslash, $ExpectError, and $ExpectType type assertions. 🧩

let value = 9001;
//  ^? let value: number

// $ExpectError
value = "over nine thousand";

// $ExpectType number
9001;

Installation

Make sure you have TypeScript and @typescript-eslint/parser installed, then install the plugin:

npm i -D eslint-plugin-expect-type

See typescript-eslint's Getting Started docs for how to run ESLint on TypeScript files.

Usage

Add the following options to your ESLint configuration file:

import expectType from "eslint-plugin-expect-type/configs/recommended";

export default [
	// your other ESLint configurations
	expectType,
];

For CommonJS, use const expectType = require("eslint-plugin-expect-type/configs/recommended").default;.

Then, you'll be able to use ^?, $ExpectError, $ExpectType, and $ExpectTypeSnapshot comments in code assert on types.

Usage (Legacy Config)

If you're still using the legacy ESLint configuration file format:

{
	"extends": ["plugin:expect-type/recommended"],
	"plugins": ["expect-type"]
}

Rules

💼 Configurations enabled in.
✅ Set in the recommended configuration.
🔧 Automatically fixable by the --fix CLI option.
💭 Requires type information.

Name	Description	💼	🔧	💭
expect	Expects type error, type snapshot, or type.	✅	🔧	💭

References

You might consider using other popular libraries and tools that can run type assertions:

• expect-type: Provides functions that return assorted generic type assertion methods, such as expectTypeOf('abc').toMatchTypeOf<string>().
• ts-expect: Provides generic type assertion function, used like expectType<string>('abc')().
• tsd: Allows writing tests specifically for .d.ts definition files.
• TSTyche: A type testing tool that ships with describe() and test() helpers, expect style assertions and a mighty test runner which allows to use specified version of TypeScript.
• Vitest: Includes assertType and expectTypeOf assertions.

TypeScript Version Support

eslint-plugin-expect-type mirrors the DefinitelyTyped TypeScript Support Window. Roughly, that's major versions of TypeScript less than 2 years old.

Appreciation

Many thanks to @ibezkrovnyi for creating the initial version and core infrastructure of this package! 💖

Contributors

Andrew Branch 💻	Batuhan Wilhelm 🐛 💻	Colin 🐛	Cédric Exbrayat 🐛	Dan Vanderkam 💻 🚧	Daniel Nagy 🐛	Dominik Dorfmeister 📖
Francesco Trotta 💻 🐛	Igor Bezkrovnyi 🐛 💻 📖 🚧	Jake Bailey 💻	Josh Goldberg ✨ 🐛 💻 📖 🚧 🚇 🤔 🔧	Russell Davis 💻	Tom Mrazauskas 📖	detachhead 🤔
nirtamir2 📖

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