eslint-community/eslint-plugin-promise

feature: warn when calling async functions without an await (no floating promises)

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#151 opened on Nov 7, 2018

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Description

Forgetting to put an await before calling an async function can have very bad outcomes and is quite hard to notice

TSLint has a rule named no-floating-promises -https://palantir.github.io/tslint/rules/no-floating-promises/

Can you implement a similar rule in this ESLint plugin?

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Research direction
Study the TSLint no floating promises rule implementation and examine the eslint plugin promise codebase to understand how other rules (e.g., no return wrap) are structured. Then implement an AST visitor that detects call expressions to async functions without an await.
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3
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JavaScriptESLint plugin development
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