id-denylist

Disallows specified identifiers.

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." — Phil Karlton

Generic names can lead to hard-to-decipher code. This rule allows you to specify a deny list of disallowed identifier names to avoid this practice.

Rule Details

This rule disallows specified identifiers in assignments and function definitions.

This rule will catch disallowed identifiers that are:

It will not catch disallowed identifiers that are:

Options

The rule takes one or more strings as options: the names of restricted identifiers.

For example, to restrict the use of common generic identifiers:

{
    "id-denylist": ["error", "data", "err", "e", "cb", "callback"]
}

Examples of incorrect code for this rule with sample "data", "callback" restricted identifiers:

/*eslint id-denylist: ["error", "data", "callback"] */

var data = {...};

function callback() {
    // ...
}

element.callback = function() {
    // ...
};

var itemSet = {
    data: [...]
};

class Foo {
    data = [];
}

class Foo {
    #data = [];
}

class Foo {
    callback( {);
}

class Foo {
    #callback( {);
}

Examples of correct code for this rule with sample "data", "callback" restricted identifiers:

/*eslint id-denylist: ["error", "data", "callback"] */

var encodingOptions = {...};

function processFileResult() {
    // ...
}

element.successHandler = function() {
    // ...
};

var itemSet = {
    entities: [...]
};

callback(); // all function calls are ignored

foo.callback(); // all function calls are ignored

foo.data; // all property names that are not assignments are ignored

class Foo {
    items = [];
}

class Foo {
    #items = [];
}

class Foo {
    method( {);
}

class Foo {
    #method( {);
}

When Not To Use It

You can turn this rule off if you do not want to restrict the use of certain identifiers.

Version

This rule was introduced in ESLint 7.4.0.

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