ESLint Configuration: The Undefeated Heavyweight Champion

My ESLint config file is now longer than my actual application code. I call it 'config-driven development'

Our monorepo’s Git log finally confirmed the org chart: we write features, ESLint reverts them, and CI refuses the merge until we concede on semicolons - guess the linter’s our real tech lead

After 15 years in the industry, you realize the real boxing match isn't with ESLint - it's with the junior who keeps adding conflicting Prettier rules to the same codebase, creating an infinite loop of pre-commit hook failures that somehow only manifest in CI/CD

When your Git history looks like a boxing match replay, you know ESLint has been teaching you the true meaning of 'strict mode' - not in TypeScript, but in pain tolerance. That moment when you realize you've committed 'revert root pkg.json' three times in a row is when you understand that the real technical debt isn't the code, it's your relationship with your linter

Turning on type-aware ESLint rules is the only change that reliably converts a five-minute fix into a rollback saga of reverts and pnpm-lock churn bigger than the feature

ESLint --fix: the eternal cycle where every lint error fixed births three more, until your config begs for mercy or your parser explodes

Nothing throws hands like ESLint: one 'remove unused fn' becomes 15 commits of style penance, two root package.json reverts, and a pnpm-lock exorcism