How to use the ESLint Plugin with Visual Studio Code to automatically identify Cypress Errors.

ESLint is the officially recommended Cypress plugin that will run linting via ESLint on your spec files and display linting errors in your cypress source code.

When you are working with visual studio code if your cypress code has any format, style, spelling related errors, these errors can be get fixed using the extension ESLint.

This Plugin supports on

• Improved TypeScript detection
• Glob working directory support
• Formatter support: ESLint can now be used for formating.
• Improved Auto Fix on Save

With this blog, I will explain the quick steps that you can follow to have this in your Visual Studio Code IDE.

1. Start Visual Studio Code
2. Press Ctrl + Shift + X to open the Extensions panel.
3. Type ESLint. Find the ESLint extension in the search bar results and click on the green Install button.
4. Close VS Code and then re-open it.
5. Now get your source code and open the project with VS Code
6. In the root directory if you have included ESLint as a plugin for your project type the command below to install the ESLint dependency for your project.

• npm install

7. Now open the .js file that you want to auto fix with visual studio code. ESLint will check your code against the Standard JavaScript Style and warn you of any conflicts and will show them in red color.

8. Now you can use CTRL + SHIFT + P to open the Command Palette.

9. Then search for “ESLint fix all auto-fixable Problems” and press enter.

10. Other than this if you want to identify source code errors by running a CLI command you can use the below command to achieve that.

• npm run lint

11. This will identify and will auto fix any possible auto fixable errors in your source code.