regex-shorthand.md

Enforce the use of regex shorthands to improve readability

This rule is fixable.

Fail

const regex = /[0-9]/;
const regex = /[^0-9]/;
const regex = /[a-zA-Z0-9_]/;
const regex = /[a-z0-9_]/i;
const regex = /[^a-zA-Z0-9_]/;
const regex = /[^a-z0-9_]/i;
const regex = /[0-9]\.[a-zA-Z0-9_]\-[^0-9]/i;

Pass

const regex = /\d/;
const regex = /\D/;
const regex = /\w/;
const regex = /\w/i;
const regex = /\W/;
const regex = /\W/i;
const regex = /\d\.\w\-\D/i;

Options

sortCharacterClasses

Type: boolean
Default: true

Disables optimizations that affect the sorting of character classes. For example, preserves the order of the characters in [AaQqTt] rather than sorting it to [AQTaqt].