require quotes around object literal property names (quote-props)

Object literal property names can be defined in two ways: using literals or using strings. For example, these two objects are equivalent:

var object1 = {
    property: true
};

var object2 = {
    "property": true
};

In many cases, it doesn't matter if you choose to use an identifier instead of a string or vice-versa. Even so, you might decide to enforce a consistent style in your code.

There are, however, some occasions when you must use quotes:

1. If you are using an ECMAScript 3 JavaScript engine (such as IE8) and you want to use a keyword (such as if) as a property name. This restriction was removed in ECMAScript 5.
2. You want to use a non-identifier character in your property name, such as having a property with a space like "one two".

Another example where quotes do matter is when using numeric literals as property keys:

var object = {
    1e2: 1,
    100: 2
};

This may look alright at first sight, but this code in fact throws a syntax error in ECMAScript 5 strict mode. This happens because 1e2 and 100 are coerced into strings before getting used as the property name. Both String(1e2) and String(100) happen to be equal to "100", which causes the "Duplicate data property in object literal not allowed in strict mode" error. Issues like that can be tricky to debug, so some prefer to require quotes around all property names.

Rule Details

This rule requires quotes around object literal property names.

Options

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

String option:

• "always" (default) requires quotes around all object literal property names
• "as-needed" disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required
• "consistent" enforces a consistent quote style requires quotes around object literal property names
• "consistent-as-needed" requires quotes around all object literal property names if any name strictly requires quotes, otherwise disallows quotes around object property names

Object option:

• "keywords": true requires quotes around language keywords used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed or consistent-as-needed)
• "unnecessary": true (default) disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "unnecessary": false allows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "numbers": true requires quotes around numbers used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed)

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/

var object = {
    foo: "bar",
    baz: 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/

var object = {
    "a": 0,
    "0": 0,
    "true": 0,
    "null": 0
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "a-b": 0,
    "0x0": 0,
    "1e2": 0
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42,
    true: 0,
    0: 0,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

consistent

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

var object3 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

consistent-as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

keywords

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    while: 1,
    volatile: "foo"
};

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    "prop": 1,
    "bar": "foo"
};

unnecessary

Examples of additional correct code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "unnecessary": false } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true, "unnecessary": false }]*/

var x = {
    "while": 1,
    "foo": "bar"  // Would normally have caused a warning
};

numbers

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "numbers": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "numbers": true }]*/

var x = {
    100: 1
}

When Not To Use It

If you don't care if property names are consistently wrapped in quotes or not, and you don't target legacy ES3 environments, turn this rule off.

Further Reading

• Reserved words as property names
• Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

For more information visit Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

Require Object Literal Shorthand Syntax (object-shorthand)

EcmaScript 6 provides a concise form for defining object literal methods and properties. This syntax can make defining complex object literals much cleaner.

Here are a few common examples using the ES5 syntax:

// properties
var foo = {
    x: x,
    y: y,
    z: z,
};

// methods
var foo = {
    a: function() {},
    b: function() {}
};

Now here are ES6 equivalents:

/*eslint-env es6*/

// properties
var foo = {x, y, z};

// methods
var foo = {
    a() {},
    b() {}
};

Rule Details

This rule enforces the use of the shorthand syntax. This applies to all methods (including generators) defined in object literals and any properties defined where the key name matches name of the assigned variable.

Each of the following properties would warn:

/*eslint object-shorthand: "error"*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var foo = {
    w: function() {},
    x: function *() {},
    [y]: function() {},
    z: z
};

In that case the expected syntax would have been:

/*eslint object-shorthand: "error"*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var foo = {
    w() {},
    *x() {},
    [y]() {},
    z
};

This rule does not flag arrow functions inside of object literals. The following will not warn:

/*eslint object-shorthand: "error"*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var foo = {
    x: (y) => y
};

Options

The rule takes an option which specifies when it should be applied. It can be set to one of the following values:

• "always" (default) expects that the shorthand will be used whenever possible.
• "methods" ensures the method shorthand is used (also applies to generators).
• "properties" ensures the property shorthand is used (where the key and variable name match).
• "never" ensures that no property or method shorthand is used in any object literal.
• "consistent" ensures that either all shorthand or all longform will be used in an object literal.
• "consistent-as-needed" ensures that either all shorthand or all longform will be used in an object literal, but ensures all shorthand whenever possible.

You can set the option in configuration like this:

{
    "object-shorthand": ["error", "always"]
}

Additionally, the rule takes an optional object configuration:

• "avoidQuotes": true indicates that longform syntax is preferred whenever the object key is a string literal (default: false). Note that this option can only be enabled when the string option is set to "always", "methods", or "properties".
• "ignoreConstructors": true can be used to prevent the rule from reporting errors for constructor functions. (By default, the rule treats constructors the same way as other functions.) Note that this option can only be enabled when the string option is set to "always" or "methods".
• "avoidExplicitReturnArrows": true indicates that methods are preferred over explicit-return arrow functions for function properties. (By default, the rule allows either of these.) Note that this option can only be enabled when the string option is set to "always" or "methods".

avoidQuotes

{
    "object-shorthand": ["error", "always", { "avoidQuotes": true }]
}

Example of incorrect code for this rule with the "always", { "avoidQuotes": true } option:

/*eslint object-shorthand: ["error", "always", { "avoidQuotes": true }]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var foo = {
    "bar-baz"() {}
};

Example of correct code for this rule with the "always", { "avoidQuotes": true } option:

/*eslint object-shorthand: ["error", "always", { "avoidQuotes": true }]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var foo = {
    "bar-baz": function() {},
    "qux": qux
};

ignoreConstructors

{
    "object-shorthand": ["error", "always", { "ignoreConstructors": true }]
}

Example of correct code for this rule with the "always", { "ignoreConstructors": true } option:

/*eslint object-shorthand: ["error", "always", { "ignoreConstructors": true }]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var foo = {
    ConstructorFunction: function() {}
};

avoidExplicitReturnArrows

{
    "object-shorthand": ["error", "always", { "avoidExplicitReturnArrows": true }]
}

Example of incorrect code for this rule with the "always", { "avoidExplicitReturnArrows": true } option:

/*eslint object-shorthand: ["error", "always", { "avoidExplicitReturnArrows": true }]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var foo = {
  foo: (bar, baz) => {
    return bar + baz;
  },

  qux: (foobar) => {
    return foobar * 2;
  }
};

Example of correct code for this rule with the "always", { "avoidExplicitReturnArrows": true } option:

/*eslint object-shorthand: ["error", "always", { "avoidExplicitReturnArrows": true }]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var foo = {
  foo(bar, baz) {
    return bar + baz;
  },

  qux: foobar => foobar * 2
};

Example of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint object-shorthand: [2, "consistent"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var foo = {
    a,
    b: "foo",
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint object-shorthand: [2, "consistent"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var foo = {
    a: a,
    b: "foo"
};

var bar = {
    a,
    b,
};

Example of incorrect code with the "consistent-as-needed" option, which is very similar to "consistent":

/*eslint object-shorthand: [2, "consistent-as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var foo = {
    a: a,
    b: b,
};

When Not To Use It

Anyone not yet in an ES6 environment would not want to apply this rule. Others may find the terseness of the shorthand syntax harder to read and may not want to encourage it with this rule.

Further Reading

Object initializer - MDN Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

Require braces in arrow function body (arrow-body-style)

Arrow functions have two syntactic forms for their function bodies. They may be defined with a block body (denoted by curly braces) () => { ... } or with a single expression () => ..., whose value is implicitly returned.

Rule Details

This rule can enforce or disallow the use of braces around arrow function body.

Options

The rule takes one or two options. The first is a string, which can be:

• "always" enforces braces around the function body
• "as-needed" enforces no braces where they can be omitted (default)
• "never" enforces no braces around the function body (constrains arrow functions to the role of returning an expression)

The second one is an object for more fine-grained configuration when the first option is "as-needed". Currently, the only available option is requireReturnForObjectLiteral, a boolean property. It's false by default. If set to true, it requires braces and an explicit return for object literals.

"arrow-body-style": ["error", "always"]

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "always" option:

/*eslint arrow-body-style: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/
let foo = () => 0;

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "always" option:

let foo = () => {
    return 0;
};
let foo = (retv, name) => {
    retv[name] = true;
    return retv;
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "as-needed" option:

/*eslint arrow-body-style: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

let foo = () => {
    return 0;
};
let foo = () => {
    return {
       bar: {
            foo: 1,
            bar: 2,
        }
    };
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "as-needed" option:

/*eslint arrow-body-style: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

let foo = () => 0;
let foo = (retv, name) => {
    retv[name] = true;
    return retv;
};
let foo = () => ({
    bar: {
        foo: 1,
        bar: 2,
    }
});
let foo = () => { bar(); };
let foo = () => {};
let foo = () => { /* do nothing */ };
let foo = () => {
    // do nothing.
};
let foo = () => ({ bar: 0 });

requireReturnForObjectLiteral

This option is only applicable when used in conjunction with the "as-needed" option.

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the { "requireReturnForObjectLiteral": true } option:

/*eslint arrow-body-style: ["error", "as-needed", { "requireReturnForObjectLiteral": true }]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/
let foo = () => ({});
let foo = () => ({ bar: 0 });

Examples of correct code for this rule with the { "requireReturnForObjectLiteral": true } option:

/*eslint arrow-body-style: ["error", "as-needed", { "requireReturnForObjectLiteral": true }]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

let foo = () => {};
let foo = () => { return { bar: 0 }; };

never

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "never" option:

/*eslint arrow-body-style: ["error", "never"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

let foo = () => {
    return 0;
};
let foo = (retv, name) => {
    retv[name] = true;
    return retv;
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "never" option:

/*eslint arrow-body-style: ["error", "never"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

let foo = () => 0;
let foo = () => ({ foo: 0 });

Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

require quotes around object literal property names (quote-props)

Object literal property names can be defined in two ways: using literals or using strings. For example, these two objects are equivalent:

var object1 = {
    property: true
};

var object2 = {
    "property": true
};

In many cases, it doesn't matter if you choose to use an identifier instead of a string or vice-versa. Even so, you might decide to enforce a consistent style in your code.

There are, however, some occasions when you must use quotes:

1. If you are using an ECMAScript 3 JavaScript engine (such as IE8) and you want to use a keyword (such as if) as a property name. This restriction was removed in ECMAScript 5.
2. You want to use a non-identifier character in your property name, such as having a property with a space like "one two".

Another example where quotes do matter is when using numeric literals as property keys:

var object = {
    1e2: 1,
    100: 2
};

This may look alright at first sight, but this code in fact throws a syntax error in ECMAScript 5 strict mode. This happens because 1e2 and 100 are coerced into strings before getting used as the property name. Both String(1e2) and String(100) happen to be equal to "100", which causes the "Duplicate data property in object literal not allowed in strict mode" error. Issues like that can be tricky to debug, so some prefer to require quotes around all property names.

Rule Details

This rule requires quotes around object literal property names.

Options

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

String option:

• "always" (default) requires quotes around all object literal property names
• "as-needed" disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required
• "consistent" enforces a consistent quote style requires quotes around object literal property names
• "consistent-as-needed" requires quotes around all object literal property names if any name strictly requires quotes, otherwise disallows quotes around object property names

Object option:

• "keywords": true requires quotes around language keywords used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed or consistent-as-needed)
• "unnecessary": true (default) disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "unnecessary": false allows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "numbers": true requires quotes around numbers used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed)

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/

var object = {
    foo: "bar",
    baz: 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/

var object = {
    "a": 0,
    "0": 0,
    "true": 0,
    "null": 0
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "a-b": 0,
    "0x0": 0,
    "1e2": 0
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42,
    true: 0,
    0: 0,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

consistent

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

var object3 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

consistent-as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

keywords

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    while: 1,
    volatile: "foo"
};

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    "prop": 1,
    "bar": "foo"
};

unnecessary

Examples of additional correct code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "unnecessary": false } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true, "unnecessary": false }]*/

var x = {
    "while": 1,
    "foo": "bar"  // Would normally have caused a warning
};

numbers

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "numbers": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "numbers": true }]*/

var x = {
    100: 1
}

When Not To Use It

If you don't care if property names are consistently wrapped in quotes or not, and you don't target legacy ES3 environments, turn this rule off.

Further Reading

• Reserved words as property names
• Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

require quotes around object literal property names (quote-props)

Object literal property names can be defined in two ways: using literals or using strings. For example, these two objects are equivalent:

var object1 = {
    property: true
};

var object2 = {
    "property": true
};

In many cases, it doesn't matter if you choose to use an identifier instead of a string or vice-versa. Even so, you might decide to enforce a consistent style in your code.

There are, however, some occasions when you must use quotes:

1. If you are using an ECMAScript 3 JavaScript engine (such as IE8) and you want to use a keyword (such as if) as a property name. This restriction was removed in ECMAScript 5.
2. You want to use a non-identifier character in your property name, such as having a property with a space like "one two".

Another example where quotes do matter is when using numeric literals as property keys:

var object = {
    1e2: 1,
    100: 2
};

This may look alright at first sight, but this code in fact throws a syntax error in ECMAScript 5 strict mode. This happens because 1e2 and 100 are coerced into strings before getting used as the property name. Both String(1e2) and String(100) happen to be equal to "100", which causes the "Duplicate data property in object literal not allowed in strict mode" error. Issues like that can be tricky to debug, so some prefer to require quotes around all property names.

Rule Details

This rule requires quotes around object literal property names.

Options

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

String option:

• "always" (default) requires quotes around all object literal property names
• "as-needed" disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required
• "consistent" enforces a consistent quote style requires quotes around object literal property names
• "consistent-as-needed" requires quotes around all object literal property names if any name strictly requires quotes, otherwise disallows quotes around object property names

Object option:

• "keywords": true requires quotes around language keywords used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed or consistent-as-needed)
• "unnecessary": true (default) disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "unnecessary": false allows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "numbers": true requires quotes around numbers used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed)

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/

var object = {
    foo: "bar",
    baz: 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/

var object = {
    "a": 0,
    "0": 0,
    "true": 0,
    "null": 0
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "a-b": 0,
    "0x0": 0,
    "1e2": 0
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42,
    true: 0,
    0: 0,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

consistent

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

var object3 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

consistent-as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

keywords

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    while: 1,
    volatile: "foo"
};

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    "prop": 1,
    "bar": "foo"
};

unnecessary

Examples of additional correct code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "unnecessary": false } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true, "unnecessary": false }]*/

var x = {
    "while": 1,
    "foo": "bar"  // Would normally have caused a warning
};

numbers

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "numbers": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "numbers": true }]*/

var x = {
    100: 1
}

When Not To Use It

If you don't care if property names are consistently wrapped in quotes or not, and you don't target legacy ES3 environments, turn this rule off.

Further Reading

• Reserved words as property names
• Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

require quotes around object literal property names (quote-props)

Object literal property names can be defined in two ways: using literals or using strings. For example, these two objects are equivalent:

var object1 = {
    property: true
};

var object2 = {
    "property": true
};

In many cases, it doesn't matter if you choose to use an identifier instead of a string or vice-versa. Even so, you might decide to enforce a consistent style in your code.

There are, however, some occasions when you must use quotes:

1. If you are using an ECMAScript 3 JavaScript engine (such as IE8) and you want to use a keyword (such as if) as a property name. This restriction was removed in ECMAScript 5.
2. You want to use a non-identifier character in your property name, such as having a property with a space like "one two".

Another example where quotes do matter is when using numeric literals as property keys:

var object = {
    1e2: 1,
    100: 2
};

This may look alright at first sight, but this code in fact throws a syntax error in ECMAScript 5 strict mode. This happens because 1e2 and 100 are coerced into strings before getting used as the property name. Both String(1e2) and String(100) happen to be equal to "100", which causes the "Duplicate data property in object literal not allowed in strict mode" error. Issues like that can be tricky to debug, so some prefer to require quotes around all property names.

Rule Details

This rule requires quotes around object literal property names.

Options

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

String option:

• "always" (default) requires quotes around all object literal property names
• "as-needed" disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required
• "consistent" enforces a consistent quote style requires quotes around object literal property names
• "consistent-as-needed" requires quotes around all object literal property names if any name strictly requires quotes, otherwise disallows quotes around object property names

Object option:

• "keywords": true requires quotes around language keywords used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed or consistent-as-needed)
• "unnecessary": true (default) disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "unnecessary": false allows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "numbers": true requires quotes around numbers used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed)

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/

var object = {
    foo: "bar",
    baz: 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/

var object = {
    "a": 0,
    "0": 0,
    "true": 0,
    "null": 0
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "a-b": 0,
    "0x0": 0,
    "1e2": 0
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42,
    true: 0,
    0: 0,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

consistent

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

var object3 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

consistent-as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

keywords

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    while: 1,
    volatile: "foo"
};

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    "prop": 1,
    "bar": "foo"
};

unnecessary

Examples of additional correct code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "unnecessary": false } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true, "unnecessary": false }]*/

var x = {
    "while": 1,
    "foo": "bar"  // Would normally have caused a warning
};

numbers

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "numbers": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "numbers": true }]*/

var x = {
    100: 1
}

When Not To Use It

If you don't care if property names are consistently wrapped in quotes or not, and you don't target legacy ES3 environments, turn this rule off.

Further Reading

• Reserved words as property names
• Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

require quotes around object literal property names (quote-props)

Object literal property names can be defined in two ways: using literals or using strings. For example, these two objects are equivalent:

var object1 = {
    property: true
};

var object2 = {
    "property": true
};

In many cases, it doesn't matter if you choose to use an identifier instead of a string or vice-versa. Even so, you might decide to enforce a consistent style in your code.

There are, however, some occasions when you must use quotes:

1. If you are using an ECMAScript 3 JavaScript engine (such as IE8) and you want to use a keyword (such as if) as a property name. This restriction was removed in ECMAScript 5.
2. You want to use a non-identifier character in your property name, such as having a property with a space like "one two".

Another example where quotes do matter is when using numeric literals as property keys:

var object = {
    1e2: 1,
    100: 2
};

This may look alright at first sight, but this code in fact throws a syntax error in ECMAScript 5 strict mode. This happens because 1e2 and 100 are coerced into strings before getting used as the property name. Both String(1e2) and String(100) happen to be equal to "100", which causes the "Duplicate data property in object literal not allowed in strict mode" error. Issues like that can be tricky to debug, so some prefer to require quotes around all property names.

Rule Details

This rule requires quotes around object literal property names.

Options

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

String option:

• "always" (default) requires quotes around all object literal property names
• "as-needed" disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required
• "consistent" enforces a consistent quote style requires quotes around object literal property names
• "consistent-as-needed" requires quotes around all object literal property names if any name strictly requires quotes, otherwise disallows quotes around object property names

Object option:

• "keywords": true requires quotes around language keywords used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed or consistent-as-needed)
• "unnecessary": true (default) disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "unnecessary": false allows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "numbers": true requires quotes around numbers used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed)

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/

var object = {
    foo: "bar",
    baz: 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/

var object = {
    "a": 0,
    "0": 0,
    "true": 0,
    "null": 0
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "a-b": 0,
    "0x0": 0,
    "1e2": 0
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42,
    true: 0,
    0: 0,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

consistent

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

var object3 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

consistent-as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

keywords

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    while: 1,
    volatile: "foo"
};

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    "prop": 1,
    "bar": "foo"
};

unnecessary

Examples of additional correct code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "unnecessary": false } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true, "unnecessary": false }]*/

var x = {
    "while": 1,
    "foo": "bar"  // Would normally have caused a warning
};

numbers

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "numbers": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "numbers": true }]*/

var x = {
    100: 1
}

When Not To Use It

If you don't care if property names are consistently wrapped in quotes or not, and you don't target legacy ES3 environments, turn this rule off.

Further Reading

• Reserved words as property names
• Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

require quotes around object literal property names (quote-props)

Object literal property names can be defined in two ways: using literals or using strings. For example, these two objects are equivalent:

var object1 = {
    property: true
};

var object2 = {
    "property": true
};

In many cases, it doesn't matter if you choose to use an identifier instead of a string or vice-versa. Even so, you might decide to enforce a consistent style in your code.

There are, however, some occasions when you must use quotes:

1. If you are using an ECMAScript 3 JavaScript engine (such as IE8) and you want to use a keyword (such as if) as a property name. This restriction was removed in ECMAScript 5.
2. You want to use a non-identifier character in your property name, such as having a property with a space like "one two".

Another example where quotes do matter is when using numeric literals as property keys:

var object = {
    1e2: 1,
    100: 2
};

This may look alright at first sight, but this code in fact throws a syntax error in ECMAScript 5 strict mode. This happens because 1e2 and 100 are coerced into strings before getting used as the property name. Both String(1e2) and String(100) happen to be equal to "100", which causes the "Duplicate data property in object literal not allowed in strict mode" error. Issues like that can be tricky to debug, so some prefer to require quotes around all property names.

Rule Details

This rule requires quotes around object literal property names.

Options

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

String option:

• "always" (default) requires quotes around all object literal property names
• "as-needed" disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required
• "consistent" enforces a consistent quote style requires quotes around object literal property names
• "consistent-as-needed" requires quotes around all object literal property names if any name strictly requires quotes, otherwise disallows quotes around object property names

Object option:

• "keywords": true requires quotes around language keywords used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed or consistent-as-needed)
• "unnecessary": true (default) disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "unnecessary": false allows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "numbers": true requires quotes around numbers used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed)

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/

var object = {
    foo: "bar",
    baz: 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/

var object = {
    "a": 0,
    "0": 0,
    "true": 0,
    "null": 0
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "a-b": 0,
    "0x0": 0,
    "1e2": 0
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42,
    true: 0,
    0: 0,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

consistent

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

var object3 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

consistent-as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

keywords

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    while: 1,
    volatile: "foo"
};

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    "prop": 1,
    "bar": "foo"
};

unnecessary

Examples of additional correct code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "unnecessary": false } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true, "unnecessary": false }]*/

var x = {
    "while": 1,
    "foo": "bar"  // Would normally have caused a warning
};

numbers

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "numbers": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "numbers": true }]*/

var x = {
    100: 1
}

When Not To Use It

If you don't care if property names are consistently wrapped in quotes or not, and you don't target legacy ES3 environments, turn this rule off.

Further Reading

• Reserved words as property names
• Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

require quotes around object literal property names (quote-props)

Object literal property names can be defined in two ways: using literals or using strings. For example, these two objects are equivalent:

var object1 = {
    property: true
};

var object2 = {
    "property": true
};

In many cases, it doesn't matter if you choose to use an identifier instead of a string or vice-versa. Even so, you might decide to enforce a consistent style in your code.

There are, however, some occasions when you must use quotes:

1. If you are using an ECMAScript 3 JavaScript engine (such as IE8) and you want to use a keyword (such as if) as a property name. This restriction was removed in ECMAScript 5.
2. You want to use a non-identifier character in your property name, such as having a property with a space like "one two".

Another example where quotes do matter is when using numeric literals as property keys:

var object = {
    1e2: 1,
    100: 2
};

This may look alright at first sight, but this code in fact throws a syntax error in ECMAScript 5 strict mode. This happens because 1e2 and 100 are coerced into strings before getting used as the property name. Both String(1e2) and String(100) happen to be equal to "100", which causes the "Duplicate data property in object literal not allowed in strict mode" error. Issues like that can be tricky to debug, so some prefer to require quotes around all property names.

Rule Details

This rule requires quotes around object literal property names.

Options

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

String option:

• "always" (default) requires quotes around all object literal property names
• "as-needed" disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required
• "consistent" enforces a consistent quote style requires quotes around object literal property names
• "consistent-as-needed" requires quotes around all object literal property names if any name strictly requires quotes, otherwise disallows quotes around object property names

Object option:

• "keywords": true requires quotes around language keywords used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed or consistent-as-needed)
• "unnecessary": true (default) disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "unnecessary": false allows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "numbers": true requires quotes around numbers used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed)

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/

var object = {
    foo: "bar",
    baz: 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/

var object = {
    "a": 0,
    "0": 0,
    "true": 0,
    "null": 0
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "a-b": 0,
    "0x0": 0,
    "1e2": 0
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42,
    true: 0,
    0: 0,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

consistent

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

var object3 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

consistent-as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

keywords

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    while: 1,
    volatile: "foo"
};

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    "prop": 1,
    "bar": "foo"
};

unnecessary

Examples of additional correct code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "unnecessary": false } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true, "unnecessary": false }]*/

var x = {
    "while": 1,
    "foo": "bar"  // Would normally have caused a warning
};

numbers

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "numbers": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "numbers": true }]*/

var x = {
    100: 1
}

When Not To Use It

If you don't care if property names are consistently wrapped in quotes or not, and you don't target legacy ES3 environments, turn this rule off.

Further Reading

• Reserved words as property names
• Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

require quotes around object literal property names (quote-props)

Object literal property names can be defined in two ways: using literals or using strings. For example, these two objects are equivalent:

var object1 = {
    property: true
};

var object2 = {
    "property": true
};

In many cases, it doesn't matter if you choose to use an identifier instead of a string or vice-versa. Even so, you might decide to enforce a consistent style in your code.

There are, however, some occasions when you must use quotes:

1. If you are using an ECMAScript 3 JavaScript engine (such as IE8) and you want to use a keyword (such as if) as a property name. This restriction was removed in ECMAScript 5.
2. You want to use a non-identifier character in your property name, such as having a property with a space like "one two".

Another example where quotes do matter is when using numeric literals as property keys:

var object = {
    1e2: 1,
    100: 2
};

This may look alright at first sight, but this code in fact throws a syntax error in ECMAScript 5 strict mode. This happens because 1e2 and 100 are coerced into strings before getting used as the property name. Both String(1e2) and String(100) happen to be equal to "100", which causes the "Duplicate data property in object literal not allowed in strict mode" error. Issues like that can be tricky to debug, so some prefer to require quotes around all property names.

Rule Details

This rule requires quotes around object literal property names.

Options

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

String option:

• "always" (default) requires quotes around all object literal property names
• "as-needed" disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required
• "consistent" enforces a consistent quote style requires quotes around object literal property names
• "consistent-as-needed" requires quotes around all object literal property names if any name strictly requires quotes, otherwise disallows quotes around object property names

Object option:

• "keywords": true requires quotes around language keywords used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed or consistent-as-needed)
• "unnecessary": true (default) disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "unnecessary": false allows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "numbers": true requires quotes around numbers used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed)

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/

var object = {
    foo: "bar",
    baz: 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/

var object = {
    "a": 0,
    "0": 0,
    "true": 0,
    "null": 0
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "a-b": 0,
    "0x0": 0,
    "1e2": 0
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42,
    true: 0,
    0: 0,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

consistent

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

var object3 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

consistent-as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

keywords

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    while: 1,
    volatile: "foo"
};

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    "prop": 1,
    "bar": "foo"
};

unnecessary

Examples of additional correct code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "unnecessary": false } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true, "unnecessary": false }]*/

var x = {
    "while": 1,
    "foo": "bar"  // Would normally have caused a warning
};

numbers

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "numbers": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "numbers": true }]*/

var x = {
    100: 1
}

When Not To Use It

If you don't care if property names are consistently wrapped in quotes or not, and you don't target legacy ES3 environments, turn this rule off.

Further Reading

• Reserved words as property names
• Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

require quotes around object literal property names (quote-props)

Object literal property names can be defined in two ways: using literals or using strings. For example, these two objects are equivalent:

var object1 = {
    property: true
};

var object2 = {
    "property": true
};

In many cases, it doesn't matter if you choose to use an identifier instead of a string or vice-versa. Even so, you might decide to enforce a consistent style in your code.

There are, however, some occasions when you must use quotes:

1. If you are using an ECMAScript 3 JavaScript engine (such as IE8) and you want to use a keyword (such as if) as a property name. This restriction was removed in ECMAScript 5.
2. You want to use a non-identifier character in your property name, such as having a property with a space like "one two".

Another example where quotes do matter is when using numeric literals as property keys:

var object = {
    1e2: 1,
    100: 2
};

This may look alright at first sight, but this code in fact throws a syntax error in ECMAScript 5 strict mode. This happens because 1e2 and 100 are coerced into strings before getting used as the property name. Both String(1e2) and String(100) happen to be equal to "100", which causes the "Duplicate data property in object literal not allowed in strict mode" error. Issues like that can be tricky to debug, so some prefer to require quotes around all property names.

Rule Details

This rule requires quotes around object literal property names.

Options

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

String option:

• "always" (default) requires quotes around all object literal property names
• "as-needed" disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required
• "consistent" enforces a consistent quote style requires quotes around object literal property names
• "consistent-as-needed" requires quotes around all object literal property names if any name strictly requires quotes, otherwise disallows quotes around object property names

Object option:

• "keywords": true requires quotes around language keywords used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed or consistent-as-needed)
• "unnecessary": true (default) disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "unnecessary": false allows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "numbers": true requires quotes around numbers used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed)

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/

var object = {
    foo: "bar",
    baz: 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/

var object = {
    "a": 0,
    "0": 0,
    "true": 0,
    "null": 0
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "a-b": 0,
    "0x0": 0,
    "1e2": 0
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42,
    true: 0,
    0: 0,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

consistent

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

var object3 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

consistent-as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

keywords

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    while: 1,
    volatile: "foo"
};

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    "prop": 1,
    "bar": "foo"
};

unnecessary

Examples of additional correct code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "unnecessary": false } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true, "unnecessary": false }]*/

var x = {
    "while": 1,
    "foo": "bar"  // Would normally have caused a warning
};

numbers

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "numbers": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "numbers": true }]*/

var x = {
    100: 1
}

When Not To Use It

If you don't care if property names are consistently wrapped in quotes or not, and you don't target legacy ES3 environments, turn this rule off.

Further Reading

• Reserved words as property names
• Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

require quotes around object literal property names (quote-props)

Object literal property names can be defined in two ways: using literals or using strings. For example, these two objects are equivalent:

var object1 = {
    property: true
};

var object2 = {
    "property": true
};

In many cases, it doesn't matter if you choose to use an identifier instead of a string or vice-versa. Even so, you might decide to enforce a consistent style in your code.

There are, however, some occasions when you must use quotes:

1. If you are using an ECMAScript 3 JavaScript engine (such as IE8) and you want to use a keyword (such as if) as a property name. This restriction was removed in ECMAScript 5.
2. You want to use a non-identifier character in your property name, such as having a property with a space like "one two".

Another example where quotes do matter is when using numeric literals as property keys:

var object = {
    1e2: 1,
    100: 2
};

This may look alright at first sight, but this code in fact throws a syntax error in ECMAScript 5 strict mode. This happens because 1e2 and 100 are coerced into strings before getting used as the property name. Both String(1e2) and String(100) happen to be equal to "100", which causes the "Duplicate data property in object literal not allowed in strict mode" error. Issues like that can be tricky to debug, so some prefer to require quotes around all property names.

Rule Details

This rule requires quotes around object literal property names.

Options

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

String option:

• "always" (default) requires quotes around all object literal property names
• "as-needed" disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required
• "consistent" enforces a consistent quote style requires quotes around object literal property names
• "consistent-as-needed" requires quotes around all object literal property names if any name strictly requires quotes, otherwise disallows quotes around object property names

Object option:

• "keywords": true requires quotes around language keywords used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed or consistent-as-needed)
• "unnecessary": true (default) disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "unnecessary": false allows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "numbers": true requires quotes around numbers used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed)

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/

var object = {
    foo: "bar",
    baz: 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/

var object = {
    "a": 0,
    "0": 0,
    "true": 0,
    "null": 0
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "a-b": 0,
    "0x0": 0,
    "1e2": 0
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42,
    true: 0,
    0: 0,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

consistent

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

var object3 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

consistent-as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

keywords

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    while: 1,
    volatile: "foo"
};

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    "prop": 1,
    "bar": "foo"
};

unnecessary

Examples of additional correct code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "unnecessary": false } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true, "unnecessary": false }]*/

var x = {
    "while": 1,
    "foo": "bar"  // Would normally have caused a warning
};

numbers

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "numbers": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "numbers": true }]*/

var x = {
    100: 1
}

When Not To Use It

If you don't care if property names are consistently wrapped in quotes or not, and you don't target legacy ES3 environments, turn this rule off.

Further Reading

• Reserved words as property names
• Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

Disallow unnecessary constructor (no-useless-constructor)

ES2015 provides a default class constructor if one is not specified. As such, it is unnecessary to provide an empty constructor or one that simply delegates into its parent class, as in the following examples:

class A {
    constructor () {
    }
}

class A extends B {
    constructor (value) {
      super(value);
    }
}

Rule Details

This rule flags class constructors that can be safely removed without changing how the class works.

Examples

Examples of incorrect code for this rule:

/*eslint no-useless-constructor: "error"*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

class A {
    constructor () {
    }
}

class A extends B {
    constructor (...args) {
      super(...args);
    }
}

Examples of correct code for this rule:

/*eslint no-useless-constructor: "error"*/

class A { }

class A {
    constructor () {
        doSomething();
    }
}

class A extends B {
    constructor() {
        super('foo');
    }
}

class A extends B {
    constructor() {
        super();
        doSomething();
    }
}

When Not To Use It

If you don't want to be notified about unnecessary constructors, you can safely disable this rule. Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

Require braces in arrow function body (arrow-body-style)

Arrow functions have two syntactic forms for their function bodies. They may be defined with a block body (denoted by curly braces) () => { ... } or with a single expression () => ..., whose value is implicitly returned.

Rule Details

This rule can enforce or disallow the use of braces around arrow function body.

Options

The rule takes one or two options. The first is a string, which can be:

• "always" enforces braces around the function body
• "as-needed" enforces no braces where they can be omitted (default)
• "never" enforces no braces around the function body (constrains arrow functions to the role of returning an expression)

The second one is an object for more fine-grained configuration when the first option is "as-needed". Currently, the only available option is requireReturnForObjectLiteral, a boolean property. It's false by default. If set to true, it requires braces and an explicit return for object literals.

"arrow-body-style": ["error", "always"]

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "always" option:

/*eslint arrow-body-style: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/
let foo = () => 0;

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "always" option:

let foo = () => {
    return 0;
};
let foo = (retv, name) => {
    retv[name] = true;
    return retv;
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "as-needed" option:

/*eslint arrow-body-style: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

let foo = () => {
    return 0;
};
let foo = () => {
    return {
       bar: {
            foo: 1,
            bar: 2,
        }
    };
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "as-needed" option:

/*eslint arrow-body-style: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

let foo = () => 0;
let foo = (retv, name) => {
    retv[name] = true;
    return retv;
};
let foo = () => ({
    bar: {
        foo: 1,
        bar: 2,
    }
});
let foo = () => { bar(); };
let foo = () => {};
let foo = () => { /* do nothing */ };
let foo = () => {
    // do nothing.
};
let foo = () => ({ bar: 0 });

requireReturnForObjectLiteral

This option is only applicable when used in conjunction with the "as-needed" option.

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the { "requireReturnForObjectLiteral": true } option:

/*eslint arrow-body-style: ["error", "as-needed", { "requireReturnForObjectLiteral": true }]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/
let foo = () => ({});
let foo = () => ({ bar: 0 });

Examples of correct code for this rule with the { "requireReturnForObjectLiteral": true } option:

/*eslint arrow-body-style: ["error", "as-needed", { "requireReturnForObjectLiteral": true }]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

let foo = () => {};
let foo = () => { return { bar: 0 }; };

never

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "never" option:

/*eslint arrow-body-style: ["error", "never"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

let foo = () => {
    return 0;
};
let foo = (retv, name) => {
    retv[name] = true;
    return retv;
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "never" option:

/*eslint arrow-body-style: ["error", "never"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

let foo = () => 0;
let foo = () => ({ foo: 0 });

Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

require quotes around object literal property names (quote-props)

Object literal property names can be defined in two ways: using literals or using strings. For example, these two objects are equivalent:

var object1 = {
    property: true
};

var object2 = {
    "property": true
};

In many cases, it doesn't matter if you choose to use an identifier instead of a string or vice-versa. Even so, you might decide to enforce a consistent style in your code.

There are, however, some occasions when you must use quotes:

1. If you are using an ECMAScript 3 JavaScript engine (such as IE8) and you want to use a keyword (such as if) as a property name. This restriction was removed in ECMAScript 5.
2. You want to use a non-identifier character in your property name, such as having a property with a space like "one two".

Another example where quotes do matter is when using numeric literals as property keys:

var object = {
    1e2: 1,
    100: 2
};

This may look alright at first sight, but this code in fact throws a syntax error in ECMAScript 5 strict mode. This happens because 1e2 and 100 are coerced into strings before getting used as the property name. Both String(1e2) and String(100) happen to be equal to "100", which causes the "Duplicate data property in object literal not allowed in strict mode" error. Issues like that can be tricky to debug, so some prefer to require quotes around all property names.

Rule Details

This rule requires quotes around object literal property names.

Options

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

String option:

• "always" (default) requires quotes around all object literal property names
• "as-needed" disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required
• "consistent" enforces a consistent quote style requires quotes around object literal property names
• "consistent-as-needed" requires quotes around all object literal property names if any name strictly requires quotes, otherwise disallows quotes around object property names

Object option:

• "keywords": true requires quotes around language keywords used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed or consistent-as-needed)
• "unnecessary": true (default) disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "unnecessary": false allows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "numbers": true requires quotes around numbers used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed)

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/

var object = {
    foo: "bar",
    baz: 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/

var object = {
    "a": 0,
    "0": 0,
    "true": 0,
    "null": 0
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "a-b": 0,
    "0x0": 0,
    "1e2": 0
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42,
    true: 0,
    0: 0,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

consistent

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

var object3 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

consistent-as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

keywords

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    while: 1,
    volatile: "foo"
};

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    "prop": 1,
    "bar": "foo"
};

unnecessary

Examples of additional correct code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "unnecessary": false } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true, "unnecessary": false }]*/

var x = {
    "while": 1,
    "foo": "bar"  // Would normally have caused a warning
};

numbers

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "numbers": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "numbers": true }]*/

var x = {
    100: 1
}

When Not To Use It

If you don't care if property names are consistently wrapped in quotes or not, and you don't target legacy ES3 environments, turn this rule off.

Further Reading

• Reserved words as property names
• Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

require quotes around object literal property names (quote-props)

Object literal property names can be defined in two ways: using literals or using strings. For example, these two objects are equivalent:

var object1 = {
    property: true
};

var object2 = {
    "property": true
};

In many cases, it doesn't matter if you choose to use an identifier instead of a string or vice-versa. Even so, you might decide to enforce a consistent style in your code.

There are, however, some occasions when you must use quotes:

1. If you are using an ECMAScript 3 JavaScript engine (such as IE8) and you want to use a keyword (such as if) as a property name. This restriction was removed in ECMAScript 5.
2. You want to use a non-identifier character in your property name, such as having a property with a space like "one two".

Another example where quotes do matter is when using numeric literals as property keys:

var object = {
    1e2: 1,
    100: 2
};

This may look alright at first sight, but this code in fact throws a syntax error in ECMAScript 5 strict mode. This happens because 1e2 and 100 are coerced into strings before getting used as the property name. Both String(1e2) and String(100) happen to be equal to "100", which causes the "Duplicate data property in object literal not allowed in strict mode" error. Issues like that can be tricky to debug, so some prefer to require quotes around all property names.

Rule Details

This rule requires quotes around object literal property names.

Options

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

String option:

• "always" (default) requires quotes around all object literal property names
• "as-needed" disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required
• "consistent" enforces a consistent quote style requires quotes around object literal property names
• "consistent-as-needed" requires quotes around all object literal property names if any name strictly requires quotes, otherwise disallows quotes around object property names

Object option:

• "keywords": true requires quotes around language keywords used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed or consistent-as-needed)
• "unnecessary": true (default) disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "unnecessary": false allows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "numbers": true requires quotes around numbers used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed)

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/

var object = {
    foo: "bar",
    baz: 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/

var object = {
    "a": 0,
    "0": 0,
    "true": 0,
    "null": 0
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "a-b": 0,
    "0x0": 0,
    "1e2": 0
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42,
    true: 0,
    0: 0,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

consistent

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

var object3 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

consistent-as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

keywords

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    while: 1,
    volatile: "foo"
};

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    "prop": 1,
    "bar": "foo"
};

unnecessary

Examples of additional correct code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "unnecessary": false } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true, "unnecessary": false }]*/

var x = {
    "while": 1,
    "foo": "bar"  // Would normally have caused a warning
};

numbers

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "numbers": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "numbers": true }]*/

var x = {
    100: 1
}

When Not To Use It

If you don't care if property names are consistently wrapped in quotes or not, and you don't target legacy ES3 environments, turn this rule off.

Further Reading

• Reserved words as property names
• Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

require quotes around object literal property names (quote-props)

Object literal property names can be defined in two ways: using literals or using strings. For example, these two objects are equivalent:

var object1 = {
    property: true
};

var object2 = {
    "property": true
};

In many cases, it doesn't matter if you choose to use an identifier instead of a string or vice-versa. Even so, you might decide to enforce a consistent style in your code.

There are, however, some occasions when you must use quotes:

1. If you are using an ECMAScript 3 JavaScript engine (such as IE8) and you want to use a keyword (such as if) as a property name. This restriction was removed in ECMAScript 5.
2. You want to use a non-identifier character in your property name, such as having a property with a space like "one two".

Another example where quotes do matter is when using numeric literals as property keys:

var object = {
    1e2: 1,
    100: 2
};

This may look alright at first sight, but this code in fact throws a syntax error in ECMAScript 5 strict mode. This happens because 1e2 and 100 are coerced into strings before getting used as the property name. Both String(1e2) and String(100) happen to be equal to "100", which causes the "Duplicate data property in object literal not allowed in strict mode" error. Issues like that can be tricky to debug, so some prefer to require quotes around all property names.

Rule Details

This rule requires quotes around object literal property names.

Options

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

String option:

• "always" (default) requires quotes around all object literal property names
• "as-needed" disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required
• "consistent" enforces a consistent quote style requires quotes around object literal property names
• "consistent-as-needed" requires quotes around all object literal property names if any name strictly requires quotes, otherwise disallows quotes around object property names

Object option:

• "keywords": true requires quotes around language keywords used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed or consistent-as-needed)
• "unnecessary": true (default) disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "unnecessary": false allows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "numbers": true requires quotes around numbers used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed)

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/

var object = {
    foo: "bar",
    baz: 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/

var object = {
    "a": 0,
    "0": 0,
    "true": 0,
    "null": 0
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "a-b": 0,
    "0x0": 0,
    "1e2": 0
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42,
    true: 0,
    0: 0,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

consistent

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

var object3 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

consistent-as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

keywords

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    while: 1,
    volatile: "foo"
};

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    "prop": 1,
    "bar": "foo"
};

unnecessary

Examples of additional correct code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "unnecessary": false } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true, "unnecessary": false }]*/

var x = {
    "while": 1,
    "foo": "bar"  // Would normally have caused a warning
};

numbers

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "numbers": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "numbers": true }]*/

var x = {
    100: 1
}

When Not To Use It

If you don't care if property names are consistently wrapped in quotes or not, and you don't target legacy ES3 environments, turn this rule off.

Further Reading

• Reserved words as property names
• Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

require quotes around object literal property names (quote-props)

Object literal property names can be defined in two ways: using literals or using strings. For example, these two objects are equivalent:

var object1 = {
    property: true
};

var object2 = {
    "property": true
};

In many cases, it doesn't matter if you choose to use an identifier instead of a string or vice-versa. Even so, you might decide to enforce a consistent style in your code.

There are, however, some occasions when you must use quotes:

1. If you are using an ECMAScript 3 JavaScript engine (such as IE8) and you want to use a keyword (such as if) as a property name. This restriction was removed in ECMAScript 5.
2. You want to use a non-identifier character in your property name, such as having a property with a space like "one two".

Another example where quotes do matter is when using numeric literals as property keys:

var object = {
    1e2: 1,
    100: 2
};

This may look alright at first sight, but this code in fact throws a syntax error in ECMAScript 5 strict mode. This happens because 1e2 and 100 are coerced into strings before getting used as the property name. Both String(1e2) and String(100) happen to be equal to "100", which causes the "Duplicate data property in object literal not allowed in strict mode" error. Issues like that can be tricky to debug, so some prefer to require quotes around all property names.

Rule Details

This rule requires quotes around object literal property names.

Options

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

String option:

• "always" (default) requires quotes around all object literal property names
• "as-needed" disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required
• "consistent" enforces a consistent quote style requires quotes around object literal property names
• "consistent-as-needed" requires quotes around all object literal property names if any name strictly requires quotes, otherwise disallows quotes around object property names

Object option:

• "keywords": true requires quotes around language keywords used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed or consistent-as-needed)
• "unnecessary": true (default) disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "unnecessary": false allows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "numbers": true requires quotes around numbers used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed)

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/

var object = {
    foo: "bar",
    baz: 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/

var object = {
    "a": 0,
    "0": 0,
    "true": 0,
    "null": 0
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "a-b": 0,
    "0x0": 0,
    "1e2": 0
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42,
    true: 0,
    0: 0,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

consistent

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

var object3 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

consistent-as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

keywords

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    while: 1,
    volatile: "foo"
};

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    "prop": 1,
    "bar": "foo"
};

unnecessary

Examples of additional correct code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "unnecessary": false } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true, "unnecessary": false }]*/

var x = {
    "while": 1,
    "foo": "bar"  // Would normally have caused a warning
};

numbers

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "numbers": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "numbers": true }]*/

var x = {
    100: 1
}

When Not To Use It

If you don't care if property names are consistently wrapped in quotes or not, and you don't target legacy ES3 environments, turn this rule off.

Further Reading

• Reserved words as property names
• Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/

require quotes around object literal property names (quote-props)

Object literal property names can be defined in two ways: using literals or using strings. For example, these two objects are equivalent:

var object1 = {
    property: true
};

var object2 = {
    "property": true
};

In many cases, it doesn't matter if you choose to use an identifier instead of a string or vice-versa. Even so, you might decide to enforce a consistent style in your code.

There are, however, some occasions when you must use quotes:

1. If you are using an ECMAScript 3 JavaScript engine (such as IE8) and you want to use a keyword (such as if) as a property name. This restriction was removed in ECMAScript 5.
2. You want to use a non-identifier character in your property name, such as having a property with a space like "one two".

Another example where quotes do matter is when using numeric literals as property keys:

var object = {
    1e2: 1,
    100: 2
};

This may look alright at first sight, but this code in fact throws a syntax error in ECMAScript 5 strict mode. This happens because 1e2 and 100 are coerced into strings before getting used as the property name. Both String(1e2) and String(100) happen to be equal to "100", which causes the "Duplicate data property in object literal not allowed in strict mode" error. Issues like that can be tricky to debug, so some prefer to require quotes around all property names.

Rule Details

This rule requires quotes around object literal property names.

Options

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

String option:

• "always" (default) requires quotes around all object literal property names
• "as-needed" disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required
• "consistent" enforces a consistent quote style requires quotes around object literal property names
• "consistent-as-needed" requires quotes around all object literal property names if any name strictly requires quotes, otherwise disallows quotes around object property names

Object option:

• "keywords": true requires quotes around language keywords used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed or consistent-as-needed)
• "unnecessary": true (default) disallows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "unnecessary": false allows quotes around object literal property names that are not strictly required (only applies when using as-needed)
• "numbers": true requires quotes around numbers used as object property names (only applies when using as-needed)

always

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/

var object = {
    foo: "bar",
    baz: 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the default "always" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "always"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/

var object = {
    "a": 0,
    "0": 0,
    "true": 0,
    "null": 0
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var object1 = {
    "a-b": 0,
    "0x0": 0,
    "1e2": 0
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42,
    true: 0,
    0: 0,
    'qux-lorem': true
};

var object3 = {
    foo() {
        return;
    }
};

consistent

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

var object3 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

consistent-as-needed

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    foo: "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    'foo': 'bar',
    'baz': 42
};

Examples of correct code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed" option:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed"]*/

var object1 = {
    "foo": "bar",
    "baz": 42,
    "qux-lorem": true
};

var object2 = {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 42
};

keywords

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    while: 1,
    volatile: "foo"
};

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "consistent-as-needed", { "keywords": true }]*/

var x = {
    "prop": 1,
    "bar": "foo"
};

unnecessary

Examples of additional correct code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "unnecessary": false } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "keywords": true, "unnecessary": false }]*/

var x = {
    "while": 1,
    "foo": "bar"  // Would normally have caused a warning
};

numbers

Examples of additional incorrect code for this rule with the "as-needed", { "numbers": true } options:

/*eslint quote-props: ["error", "as-needed", { "numbers": true }]*/

var x = {
    100: 1
}

When Not To Use It

If you don't care if property names are consistently wrapped in quotes or not, and you don't target legacy ES3 environments, turn this rule off.

Further Reading

• Reserved words as property names
• Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript Source: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/