Pre-commit hook for eslint, linting *only* staged changes.

pre-commit.sh

#!/bin/bash

for file in $(git diff --cached --name-only | grep -E '\.(js|jsx)$')
do
  git show ":$file" | node_modules/.bin/eslint --stdin --stdin-filename "$file" # we only want to lint the staged changes, not any un-staged changes
  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "ESLint failed on staged file '$file'. Please check your code and try again. You can run ESLint manually via npm run eslint."
    exit 1 # exit with failure status
  fi
done

Thank you to OP -- very useful. I adapted and my lint-staged.sh file looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
clear
fileList=$(git diff --diff-filter=d --cached --name-only | grep -E '\.(js|vue)$')
if [ ${#fileList} -lt 1 ]; then
    echo -e "You have no staged .js or .vue files to test\n"
    exit
fi
npx eslint ${fileList[*]} "$@"
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo -e "\nPlease fix the above linting issues before committing.\n"
    exit 1
fi

Benefits are:

• using npx allows running local or global eslint
• Passing the file list to eslint limits this to a single run -- so eslint only has to start up once, and not once for every file
• It only exits after all staged files have been tested
• Has an out for when no files are staged
• allows you to configure eslint by adding arguments to shell command. ie. ./lint-staged.sh --fix

Thanks @nemesarial! This works like a charm

This does not lint "only staged changes" it lints each file that is changed. Which is annoying because it can block your commit for stuff that isn't even in the commit! Eslint should just have a --diff options like flake8

There is an cleaner way to accomplish this, with husky:

// package.json
...
"husky": {
    "hooks": {
      "pre-commit": "lint-staged"
    }
  },
  "lint-staged": {
    "*.{js,ts,tsx}": [
      "prettier --write",
      "eslint --ext .ts,.tsx,.js --fix"
    ]
  },

@aperkaz

https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-plugin-diff

@aperkaz

LGTM, but maybe eslint should be run before prettier.

Note: If you use ESLint, make sure lint-staged runs it before Prettier, not after.
ref: https://prettier.io/docs/en/install.html#git-hooks

There is an cleaner way to accomplish this, with husky:

// package.json
...
"husky": {
    "hooks": {
      "pre-commit": "lint-staged"
    }
  },
  "lint-staged": {
    "*.{js,ts,tsx}": [
      "prettier --write",
      "eslint --ext .ts,.tsx,.js --fix"
    ]
  },

this worked for me & I also took @zhyd1997's suggestion

  },

@aperkaz
Where exactly i need to place above lines inside package.json file.

@Naveen9453 after the dependencies section is a good place, although I tend to locate it at the end of the file. No strict placement requirements though.

package.json configuration of husky no longer works, by design.