noArguments

JavaScript (and super languages)

Summary

• Rule available since: v1.0.0
• Diagnostic Category: lint/complexity/noArguments
• This rule is recommended, which means is enabled by default.
• This rule doesn’t have a fix.
• The default severity of this rule is warning.
• Sources:
  • Same as prefer-rest-params

How to configure

biome.json

{
  "linter": {
    "rules": {
      "complexity": {
        "noArguments": "error"
      }
    }
  }
}

Description

Disallow the use of arguments.

Examples

Invalid

function f() {
   console.log(arguments);
}

code-block.js:2:16 lint/complexity/noArguments ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ⚠ Use the rest parameters instead of arguments.
  
    1 │ function f() {
  > 2 │    console.log(arguments);
      │                ^^^^^^^^^
    3 │ }
    4 │ 
  
  ℹ arguments does not have Array.prototype methods and can be inconvenient to use.
  

Valid

function f() {
    let arguments = 1;
    console.log(arguments);
}

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