useCollapsedElseIf (since v1.1.0)
Diagnostic Category: lint/style/useCollapsedElseIf
Sources:
- Same as:
no-lonely-if - Same as:
collapsible_else_if
Enforce using else if instead of nested if in else clauses.
If an if statement is the only statement in the else block, it is often clearer to use an else if form.
Examples
Section titled ExamplesInvalid
Section titled Invalidif (condition) { // ...} else { if (anotherCondition) { // ... }}style/useCollapsedElseIf.js:3:9 lint/style/useCollapsedElseIf FIXABLE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
⚠ This if statement can be collapsed into an else if statement.
1 │ if (condition) {
2 │ // ...
> 3 │ } else {
│
> 4 │ if (anotherCondition) {
> 5 │ // ...
> 6 │ }
│ ^
7 │ }
8 │
ℹ Safe fix: Use collapsed else if instead.
1 1 │ if (condition) {
2 2 │ // ...
3 │ - }·else·{
4 │ - ····if·(anotherCondition)·{
3 │ + }·else·if·(anotherCondition)·{
5 4 │ // ...
6 │ - ····}
7 │ - }
5 │ + ····}
8 6 │
if (condition) { // ...} else { if (anotherCondition) { // ... } else { // ... }}style/useCollapsedElseIf.js:3:9 lint/style/useCollapsedElseIf FIXABLE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
⚠ This if statement can be collapsed into an else if statement.
1 │ if (condition) {
2 │ // ...
> 3 │ } else {
│
> 4 │ if (anotherCondition) {
> 5 │ // ...
> 6 │ } else {
> 7 │ // ...
> 8 │ }
│ ^
9 │ }
10 │
ℹ Safe fix: Use collapsed else if instead.
1 1 │ if (condition) {
2 2 │ // ...
3 │ - }·else·{
4 │ - ····if·(anotherCondition)·{
3 │ + }·else·if·(anotherCondition)·{
5 4 │ // ...
6 5 │ } else {
7 6 │ // ...
8 │ - ····}
9 │ - }
7 │ + ····}
10 8 │
if (condition) { // ...} else { // Comment if (anotherCondition) { // ... }}style/useCollapsedElseIf.js:3:9 lint/style/useCollapsedElseIf ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
⚠ This if statement can be collapsed into an else if statement.
1 │ if (condition) {
2 │ // ...
> 3 │ } else {
│
> 4 │ // Comment
> 5 │ if (anotherCondition) {
> 6 │ // ...
> 7 │ }
│ ^
8 │ }
9 │
Valid
Section titled Validif (condition) { // ...} else if (anotherCondition) { // ...}if (condition) { // ...} else if (anotherCondition) { // ...} else { // ...}if (condition) { // ...} else { if (anotherCondition) { // ... } doSomething();}