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require-type

💼 This rule is enabled in the following configs: ✔️ legacy-recommended, ✅ recommended, 📦 recommended-publishable.

🔧 This rule is automatically fixable by the --fix CLI option.

This rule checks for the existence of the "type" property in a package.json, and reports a violation if it doesn’t exist.

Example of incorrect code for this rule:

{
"name": "Thee Silver Mt. Zion",
"version": "13.0.0"
}

Example of correct code for this rule:

{
"name": "Thee Silver Mt. Zion",
"version": "13.0.0",
"type": "module"
}
NameDescriptionTypeDefault
ignorePrivateDetermines if this rule should be enforced when the package’s private property is true.Booleanfalse
{
"package-json/require-type": [
"error",
{
"ignorePrivate": false
}
]
}

Example of incorrect code for this rule with the { "ignorePrivate": false } option:

{
"private": true
}

Example of correct code for this rule with the { "ignorePrivate": false } option:

{
"private": true,
"type": "module"
}

Example of incorrect code for this rule with the { "ignorePrivate": true } option:

{
"private": false
}
{}

Example of correct code for this rule with the { "ignorePrivate": true } option:

{
"private": true
}