noExtraBooleanCast

Diagnostic Category: lint/complexity/noExtraBooleanCast

JavaScript (and super languages)

Since: v1.0.0

Sources:

Same as: no-extra-boolean-cast

Disallow unnecessary boolean casts

Examples

Invalid

if (!Boolean(foo)) {
}

code-block.js:1:6 lint/complexity/noExtraBooleanCast  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ✖ Avoid redundant Boolean call
  
  > 1 │ if (!Boolean(foo)) {
      │      ^^^^^^^^^^^^
    2 │ }
    3 │ 
  
  ℹ It is not necessary to use Boolean call when a value will already be coerced to a boolean.
  
  ℹ Unsafe fix: Remove redundant Boolean call
  
    1 │ if·(!Boolean(foo))·{
      │      --------   -

while (!!foo) {}

code-block.js:1:8 lint/complexity/noExtraBooleanCast  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ✖ Avoid redundant double-negation.
  
  > 1 │ while (!!foo) {}
      │        ^^^^^
    2 │ 
  
  ℹ It is not necessary to use double-negation when a value will already be coerced to a boolean.
  
  ℹ Unsafe fix: Remove redundant double-negation
  
    1 │ while·(!!foo)·{}
      │        --

let x = 1;
do {
1 + 1;
} while (Boolean(x));

code-block.js:4:10 lint/complexity/noExtraBooleanCast  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ✖ Avoid redundant Boolean call
  
    2 │ do {
    3 │ 1 + 1;
  > 4 │ } while (Boolean(x));
      │          ^^^^^^^^^^
    5 │ 
  
  ℹ It is not necessary to use Boolean call when a value will already be coerced to a boolean.
  
  ℹ Unsafe fix: Remove redundant Boolean call
  
    4 │ }·while·(Boolean(x));
      │          -------- -

for (; !!foo; ) {}

code-block.js:1:8 lint/complexity/noExtraBooleanCast  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ✖ Avoid redundant double-negation.
  
  > 1 │ for (; !!foo; ) {}
      │        ^^^^^
    2 │ 
  
  ℹ It is not necessary to use double-negation when a value will already be coerced to a boolean.
  
  ℹ Unsafe fix: Remove redundant double-negation
  
    1 │ for·(;·!!foo;·)·{}
      │        --

new Boolean(!!x);

code-block.js:1:13 lint/complexity/noExtraBooleanCast  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ✖ Avoid redundant double-negation.
  
  > 1 │ new Boolean(!!x);
      │             ^^^
    2 │ 
  
  ℹ It is not necessary to use double-negation when a value will already be coerced to a boolean.
  
  ℹ Unsafe fix: Remove redundant double-negation
  
    1 │ new·Boolean(!!x);
      │             --

Valid

Boolean(!x);
!x;
!!x;

noExtraBooleanCast

Examples

Invalid

Valid

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