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Supper Club × ESLint with Nicholas Zakas
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
How ESLint Knows When You're Doing Specific Things
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Sebastian: I love hearing stories from the olden days when you use such word as native XML HTTP request. And that really was what started me down this path of investigating how to do something like that. Man, that's wild. But my next question was just like, how does how does ESLint even work? Like, how does it know when I'm doing specific things? So you're saying you parse it, and that gives you what? Is that called an AST?Yeah, so inside of ESLint, we use a parser, either the default parsers that we shipped with, or a custom one that you've supplied in your configuration. Each of the rules
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