.eslintrc

{
  "extends": [ "airbnb", "plugin:mocha/recommended"],
  "rules": {
    // "no-console": "off",
    "react/prop-types": "off",
    // "linebreak-style": 0 // windows CRLF LF thing?
    "func-names": "off",
    
    // allows for i++ or i-- in third arg of for loop
    "no-plusplus": ["error", { "allowForLoopAfterthoughts": true }], 
    
    // gets rid of errors like 'chai' should be in project dependencies, not devDependencies, in test.ts/x files ONLY
    "import/no-extraneous-dependencies": ["error", {"devDependencies": ["**/*.test.ts", "**/*.test.tsx"]}]
  },
  "env": {
    "node": true,
    "es6": true
  },
  // below are the settings for typescript linting
  "parser": "@typescript-eslint/parser",
  "plugins": [ "@typescript-eslint", "mocha" ],
  "parserOptions": {
    "sourceType": "module",
    "ecmaFeatures": {
      "modules": true
    },
    "project": "./tsconfig.json"
  },

  // this setting removes the need to constantly ignore the no-unresolved-paths error
  "settings": {
    "import/resolver": {
      "node": {
        "extensions": [".js", ".jsx", ".ts", ".tsx"]
      }
    }
  }
}