eslint-plugin-escape

Autofixable escaping for non-printable and non-ASCII characters in strings.

Installation

You'll first need to install ESLint:

$ npm i eslint --save-dev

Next, install eslint-plugin-escape:

$ npm i eslint-plugin-escape --save-dev

Add escape to the plugins section of your .eslintrc configuration file. You can omit the eslint-plugin- prefix:

{
  "plugins": ["escape"]
}

Then configure the rules you want to use under the rules section.

{
  "rules": {
    "escape/escape": ["error", "non-printable"]
  }
}

This rule has two options, a string option and an object option.

String option:

Object option:

"exact": true requires an exact formatting
- use the shortest possible form (but never octal)
- don't escape unnecessarily
- use lower case hexadecimal escape codes

The "non-printable" option requires non-printable characters to be escaped inside of all strings. This is the default option.

Because they're non-printable, it's difficult to demonstrate the problem.

Instead, here are examples of correct code for this rule with the default "non-printable" option:

/* eslint escape/escape: ["error", "non-printable"] */
var nullCharacter = "\0";
var distance = "100\xa0km";

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "non-ascii" option:

/* eslint escape/escape: ["error", "non-ascii"] */
var greeting = "¡Héłlõ, wöŕlð!";

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "non-ascii" option:

/* eslint escape/escape: ["error", "non-ascii"] */
var greeting = "\xa1H\xe9\u0142l\xf5, w\xf6\u0155l\xf0!";
var distance = "100\xa0km";

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "non-ascii", { "exact": true } options:

/* eslint escape/escape: ["error", "non-ascii", { "exact": true }] */
var space = "\x20";
var newline = "\u000a";
var replacement = "\uFFFD";

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "non-ascii", { "exact": true } options:

/* eslint escape/escape: ["error", "non-ascii", { "exact": true }] */
var space = " ";
var newline = "\n";
var replacement = "\ufffd";