jsx-curly-spacing.md

Enforce or disallow spaces inside of curly braces in JSX attributes. (jsx-curly-spacing)

While formatting preferences are very personal, a number of style guides require or disallow spaces between curly braces.

Fixable: This rule is automatically fixable using the --fix flag on the command line.

Rule Details

This rule aims to maintain consistency around the spacing inside of JSX attributes.

It either requires or disallows spaces between those braces and the values inside of them.

Options

There are two main options for the rule:

• "always" enforces a space inside of curly braces
• "never" disallows spaces inside of curly braces (default)

Depending on your coding conventions, you can choose either option by specifying it in your configuration:

"jsx-curly-spacing": [2, "always"]

never

When "never" is set, the following patterns are considered warnings:

<Hello name={ firstname } />;
<Hello name={ firstname} />;
<Hello name={firstname } />;

The following patterns are not warnings:

<Hello name={firstname} />;
<Hello name={{ firstname: 'John', lastname: 'Doe' }} />;
<Hello name={
  firstname
} />;

always

When "always" is used, the following patterns are considered warnings:

<Hello name={firstname} />;
<Hello name={ firstname} />;
<Hello name={firstname } />;

The following patterns are not warnings:

<Hello name={ firstname } />;
<Hello name={ {firstname: 'John', lastname: 'Doe'} } />;
<Hello name={
  firstname
} />;

Braces spanning multiple lines

By default, braces spanning multiple lines are allowed with either setting. If you want to disallow them you can specify an additional allowMultiline property with the value false:

"jsx-curly-spacing": [2, "never", {"allowMultiline": false}]

When "never" is used and allowMultiline is false, the following patterns are considered warnings:

<Hello name={ firstname } />;
<Hello name={ firstname} />;
<Hello name={firstname } />;
<Hello name={
  firstname
} />;

The following patterns are not warnings:

<Hello name={firstname} />;
<Hello name={{ firstname: 'John', lastname: 'Doe' }} />;

When "always" is used and allowMultiline is false, the following patterns are considered warnings:

<Hello name={firstname} />;
<Hello name={ firstname} />;
<Hello name={firstname } />;
<Hello name={
  firstname
} />;

The following patterns are not warnings:

<Hello name={ firstname } />;
<Hello name={ {firstname: 'John', lastname: 'Doe'} } />;

Granular spacing controls

You can specify an additional spacing property that is an object with the following possible values:

"jsx-curly-spacing": [2, "always", {"spacing": {
  "objectLiterals": "never"
}}]

• objectLiterals: This controls different spacing requirements when the value inside the jsx curly braces is an object literal.

All spacing options accept either the string "always" or the string "never". Note that the default value for all "spacing" options matches the first "always"/"never" option provided.

When "always" is used but objectLiterals is "never", the following pattern is not considered a warning:

<App blah={ 3 } foo={{ bar: true, baz: true }} />;

When "never" is used and objectLiterals is "always", the following pattern is not considered a warning:

<App blah={3} foo={ {bar: true, baz: true} } />;

Please note that spacing of the object literal curly braces themselves is controlled by the built-in object-curly-spacing rule.

When Not To Use It

You can turn this rule off if you are not concerned with the consistency around the spacing inside of JSX attributes.