diff --git a/docusaurus/docs/advanced-configuration.md b/docusaurus/docs/advanced-configuration.md
index a3000988b62..336d28cb2a2 100644
--- a/docusaurus/docs/advanced-configuration.md
+++ b/docusaurus/docs/advanced-configuration.md
@@ -27,4 +27,6 @@ You can adjust various development and production settings by setting environmen
 | IMAGE_INLINE_SIZE_LIMIT   | 🚫 Ignored  |  ✅ Used   | By default, images smaller than 10,000 bytes are encoded as a data URI in base64 and inlined in the CSS or JS build artifact. Set this to control the size limit in bytes. Setting it to 0 will disable the inlining of images.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
 | FAST_REFRESH              |   ✅ Used   | 🚫 Ignored | When set to `false`, disables experimental support for Fast Refresh to allow you to tweak your components in real time without reloading the page.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
 | TSC_COMPILE_ON_ERROR      |   ✅ Used   |  ✅ Used   | When set to `true`, you can run and properly build TypeScript projects even if there are TypeScript type check errors. These errors are printed as warnings in the terminal and/or browser console.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
+| ESLINT_NO_DEV_ERRORS      |   ✅ Used   | 🚫 Ignored | When set to `true`, ESLint errors are converted to warnings during development. As a result, ESLint output will no longer appear in the error overlay.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| DISABLE_ESLINT_PLUGIN     |   ✅ Used   |  ✅ Used   | When set to `true`, [eslint-webpack-plugin](https://github.com/webpack-contrib/eslint-webpack-plugin) will be completely disabled.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
 | DISABLE_NEW_JSX_TRANSFORM |   ✅ Used   |  ✅ Used   | When set to `true`, disables the [new JSX transform](https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/09/22/introducing-the-new-jsx-transform.html) introduced in React 17 and backported to React 16.14.0, 15.7.0, and 0.14.10. New projects will use a version of React that supports this by default but you may need to disable it in existing projects if you can't upgrade React.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
diff --git a/packages/react-dev-utils/eslintFormatter.js b/packages/react-dev-utils/eslintFormatter.js
index 47b111f7568..4e8280c686a 100644
--- a/packages/react-dev-utils/eslintFormatter.js
+++ b/packages/react-dev-utils/eslintFormatter.js
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ const table = require('text-table');
 
 const cwd = process.cwd();
 
+const emitErrorsAsWarnings =
+  process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development' &&
+  process.env.ESLINT_NO_DEV_ERRORS === 'true';
+
 function isError(message) {
   if (message.fatal || message.severity === 2) {
     return true;
@@ -38,7 +42,7 @@ function formatter(results) {
 
     messages = messages.map(message => {
       let messageType;
-      if (isError(message)) {
+      if (isError(message) && !emitErrorsAsWarnings) {
         messageType = 'error';
         hasErrors = true;
         if (message.ruleId) {
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.js b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.js
index 502736ead11..ba8fd0b9b56 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.js
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.js
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ const reactRefreshOverlayEntry = require.resolve(
 // makes for a smoother build process.
 const shouldInlineRuntimeChunk = process.env.INLINE_RUNTIME_CHUNK !== 'false';
 
+const emitErrorsAsWarnings = process.env.ESLINT_NO_DEV_ERRORS === 'true';
+const disableESLintPlugin = process.env.DISABLE_ESLINT_PLUGIN === 'true';
+
 const imageInlineSizeLimit = parseInt(
   process.env.IMAGE_INLINE_SIZE_LIMIT || '10000'
 );
@@ -750,29 +753,31 @@ module.exports = function (webpackEnv) {
           // The formatter is invoked directly in WebpackDevServerUtils during development
           formatter: isEnvProduction ? typescriptFormatter : undefined,
         }),
-      new ESLintPlugin({
-        // Plugin options
-        extensions: ['js', 'mjs', 'jsx', 'ts', 'tsx'],
-        formatter: require.resolve('react-dev-utils/eslintFormatter'),
-        eslintPath: require.resolve('eslint'),
-        context: paths.appSrc,
-        cache: true,
-        cacheLocation: path.resolve(
-          paths.appNodeModules,
-          '.cache/.eslintcache'
-        ),
-        // ESLint class options
-        cwd: paths.appPath,
-        resolvePluginsRelativeTo: __dirname,
-        baseConfig: {
-          extends: [require.resolve('eslint-config-react-app/base')],
-          rules: {
-            ...(!hasJsxRuntime && {
-              'react/react-in-jsx-scope': 'error',
-            }),
+      !disableESLintPlugin &&
+        new ESLintPlugin({
+          // Plugin options
+          extensions: ['js', 'mjs', 'jsx', 'ts', 'tsx'],
+          formatter: require.resolve('react-dev-utils/eslintFormatter'),
+          eslintPath: require.resolve('eslint'),
+          emitWarning: isEnvDevelopment && emitErrorsAsWarnings,
+          context: paths.appSrc,
+          cache: true,
+          cacheLocation: path.resolve(
+            paths.appNodeModules,
+            '.cache/.eslintcache'
+          ),
+          // ESLint class options
+          cwd: paths.appPath,
+          resolvePluginsRelativeTo: __dirname,
+          baseConfig: {
+            extends: [require.resolve('eslint-config-react-app/base')],
+            rules: {
+              ...(!hasJsxRuntime && {
+                'react/react-in-jsx-scope': 'error',
+              }),
+            },
           },
-        },
-      }),
+        }),
     ].filter(Boolean),
     // Some libraries import Node modules but don't use them in the browser.
     // Tell webpack to provide empty mocks for them so importing them works.