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@43081j 43081j commented Apr 17, 2025

this helped me learn about the events helpers, so figured i may as well throw it together.

let me know if there's anything i missed, as i don't think i've added a new rule in this repo before.

one thing to note is that it has a suggestion, but that relies on the user later making sure on has been imported correctly. im not sure we can do that automatically since each suggestion runs individually and should probably only affect the subset of code you're reporting

close: #1194

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I’d really appreciate it if we could help by adding some tests for now!
And please add changeset.

docs: {
description: 'Warns against the use of `addEventListener`',
category: 'Best Practices',
recommended: false,
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Do you think this should be shipped as a recommended rule? (It might cause a lot of errors in existing code, though.)
cc: @ota-meshi

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ultimately i think it should be recommended, but im not sure how we can do that without introducing loads of errors like you say 🤔 it'd have to be in the next major i suppose

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Let’s make it recommended in the next major release.

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window.addEventListener ('message', handler);
// with a comment
window.addEventListener/* foo */('message', handler);
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Should we also include the TypeScript case like this?

(window as any).addEventListener ('message', handler);
(window.addEventListener as any)('message', handler);

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for this one, i added the test cases but this one isn't currently supported:

(window.addEventListener as any)('message', handler);

we would need logic to handle call expressions containing casts, which feels weird. maybe we should just ignore this case and not try handle it?

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I’m not sure how complicated this is, so I’ll try implementing it myself later.

@43081j 43081j force-pushed the listeners-and-such branch from a11babd to e13635b Compare April 21, 2025 12:51
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Please add changeset🙏

window.addEventListener('resize', handler);
</script>
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Can you add these 2 links in Further reading section? (IIRC, the original template has "Further reading" section.)

https://svelte.dev/docs/svelte/basic-markup#Events-Event-delegation
https://svelte.dev/docs/svelte/svelte-events#on


## :book: Rule Details

This rule reports usages of `addEventListener`:
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Is it better?

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This rule reports usages of `addEventListener`:
Svelte relies on event delegation for performance and predictable handler order. Calling `addEventListener` inside a component skips this mechanism. This rule reports any call to `addEventListener` suggests converting to the `on()` helper from `svelte/events`.

description: 'Warns against the use of `addEventListener`',
category: 'Best Practices',
recommended: false,
default: 'warn'
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Why was the default set to warn?

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window.addEventListener ('message', handler);
// with a comment
window.addEventListener/* foo */('message', handler);
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I’m not sure how complicated this is, so I’ll try implementing it myself later.

const { callee, arguments: args } = node;
let target: string | null = null;

if (args.length < 2 || args.length > 3) {
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Can we check such weird pattern? 😅

<script>
	const foo = ['resize', () => { console.log('resized!') }]
	window.addEventListner(...foo);
</script>

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Even if suggestions aren’t possible, maybe it’s fine to just report any use of addEventListener.

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new rule: svelte/no-add-event-listner
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