Rule for __dirname

[kibertoad]

Would it make sense to have a rule that would check for the usage of __dirname? It doesn't work in ESM context, but is not easily caught by tests, as e. g. vitest injects __dirname, so it works correctly there, but then fails in production.

[dyc3]

Yeah this would be great to have. Are there any eslint rules (even from plugins) that cover this? __filename is also in a similar situation. I'd suggest noLegacyPathGlobals or noLegacyCurrentFileGlobals for the rule name. Feel free to file a task for it.

[kibertoad]

@ematipico Why was #4331 closed? There literally was a request to open a task for this.

[ematipico]

Because we don't know who is going to work on the task, or there aren't instructions for contributors, and we don't know how we are going to name the rule. @dyc3 proposed some, but we haven't agreed to any.

If we want to open a task, we should provide all the info for a contributor to pick up the task and work on it. I will re-open it, but please let's provide more information for contributors.

[kibertoad]

@ematipico Thank you. Can you give a good example of how it needs to be described?

[ematipico]

#4333