How can I turn off ESLint's no-restricted-syntax rule just for ForOfStatement?

Question

I am using ESLint for my ES6 program, with the AirBNB rule-set. For good and adequate reasons, I am using the for...of construction in my code, but ESLint objects to it, issuing a no-restricted-syntax error.

The documentation at http://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-restricted-syntax explains how I can specify in my .eslint file the set of syntax-tree nodes that it objects to: for example, if all I dislike is the with statement, I can use:

"no-restricted-syntax": ["warn", "WithStatement"]

But I don't want to specify a whole set of unapproved constructions, I just want to say that I consider one such construction OK. Something conceptually similar to

ESlint.rules['no-restricted-syntax'].removeEntry('ForOfStatement');

Is there a way to do this in the ESLint file? Or, failing that, is there at least a way to get it to tell me what its current no-restricted-syntax configuration is, so I can manually remove ForOfStatement from it?

Answer 1

Check existing config

Based on the current master branch, eslint-config-airbnb currently disables four syntax forms:

1. ForInStatement
2. ForOfStatement
3. LabeledStatement
4. WithStatement

You can verify this or see if there are any differences by using ESLint's --print-config CLI flag:

$ eslint --print-config file.js 

ESLint will print out the config it would use to lint file.js, and you can find the config for the no-restricted-syntax rule there.

Override no-restricted-syntax

If you want to override Airbnb's preset, you can do so in the rules section of your .eslintrc.json file:

{     "rules": {         "no-restricted-syntax": ["error", "ForInStatement", "LabeledStatement", "WithStatement"]     } } 

There's no way to configure the rule to use the no-restricted-syntax config inherited from Airbnb's preset excepting only a single syntax form.