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Requires Promise-like values to be handled appropriately (no-floating-promises)

This rule forbids usage of Promise-like values in statements without handling their errors appropriately. Unhandled promises can cause several issues, such as improperly sequenced operations, ignored Promise rejections and more. Valid ways of handling a Promise-valued statement include awaiting, returning, and either calling .then() with two arguments or .catch() with one argument.

Rule Details

Examples of code for this rule:

const promise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => resolve('value'));
promise;

async function returnsPromise() {
return 'value';
}
returnsPromise().then(() => {});

Promise.reject('value').catch();

Promise.reject('value').finally();

Options

The rule accepts an options object with the following properties:

type Options = {
// if true, checking void expressions will be skipped
ignoreVoid?: boolean;
// if true, checking for async iife will be skipped
ignoreIIFE?: boolean;
};

const defaults = {
ignoreVoid: true,
ignoreIIFE: false,
};

ignoreVoid

This allows you to stop the rule reporting promises consumed with void operator. This can be a good way to explicitly mark a promise as intentionally not awaited.

Examples of correct code for this rule with { ignoreVoid: true }:

async function returnsPromise() {
return 'value';
}
void returnsPromise();

void Promise.reject('value');

With this option set to true, and if you are using no-void, you should turn on the allowAsStatement option.

ignoreIIFE

This allows you to skip checking of async iife

Examples of correct code for this rule with { ignoreIIFE: true }:

await(async function () {
await res(1);
})();

(async function () {
await res(1);
})();

When Not To Use It

If you do not use Promise-like values in your codebase, or want to allow them to remain unhandled.

Attributes

  • โœ… Recommended
  • ๐Ÿ”ง Fixable
  • ๐Ÿ’ญ Requires type information