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no-useless-empty-export

Disallow empty exports that don't change anything in a module file.

Attributes

  • Included in configs
    • ✅ Recommended
    • 🔒 Strict
  • Fixable
    • 🔧 Automated Fixer
    • 💡 Suggestion Fixer
  • 💭 Requires type information

Rule Details​

An empty export {} statement is sometimes useful in TypeScript code to turn a file that would otherwise be a script file into a module file. Per the TypeScript Handbook Modules page:

In TypeScript, just as in ECMAScript 2015, any file containing a top-level import or export is considered a module. Conversely, a file without any top-level import or export declarations is treated as a script whose contents are available in the global scope (and therefore to modules as well).

However, an export {} statement does nothing if there are any other top-level import or export statements in a file.

Examples of code for this rule:

export const value = 'Hello, world!';
export {};
import 'some-other-module';
export {};

Options​

.eslintrc.cjs
module.exports = {
  "rules": {
    "@typescript-eslint/no-useless-empty-export": "warn"
  }
};

This rule is not configurable.

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