no-useless-token-range.md

Disallow unnecessary calls to sourceCode.getFirstToken and sourceCode.getLastToken (no-useless-token-range)

AST nodes always start and end with tokens. As a result, the start index of the first token in a node is the same as the start index of the node itself, and the end index of the last token in a node is the same as the end index of the node itself. Using code like sourceCode.getFirstToken(node).range[0] unnecessarily hurts the performance of your rule, and makes your code less readable.

Rule Details

This rule aims to avoid unnecessary calls to sourceCode.getFirstToken and sourceCode.getLastToken.

Examples of incorrect code for this rule:

/* eslint eslint-plugin/no-useless-token-range: error */

module.exports = {
  create(context) {
    const sourceCode = context.getSourceCode();

    const rangeStart = sourceCode.getFirstToken(node).range[0];
    const rangeEnd = sourceCode.getLastToken(node).range[1];
  }
};

Examples of correct code for this rule:

/* eslint eslint-plugin/no-useless-token-range: error */

module.exports = {
  create(context) {
    const sourceCode = context.getSourceCode();

    const rangeStart = node.range[0];
    const rangeEnd = node.range[1];
  }
};

Known Limitations

• To ensure that your SourceCode instances can be detected, your rule must assign context.getSourceCode() to a variable somewhere.

Further Reading

• SourceCode API