[Angular CLI: 6.0.0] ng lint Invalid lint configuration. Nothing to lint.

[akinorew]

Versions

Angular CLI: 6.0.0
Node: 9.0.0
OS: darwin x64
Angular: 6.0.0
... animations, cdk, cli, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core
... forms, http, language-service, platform-browser
... platform-browser-dynamic, router, upgrade

Package                           Version
-----------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect         0.6.0
@angular-devkit/build-angular     0.6.0
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer   0.6.0
@angular-devkit/core              0.6.0
@angular-devkit/schematics        0.6.0
@ngtools/webpack                  6.0.0
@schematics/angular               0.6.0
@schematics/update                0.6.0
rxjs                              6.1.0
typescript                        2.7.2
webpack                           4.6.0

macOS (High Sierra)

Repro steps

Running ng lint.
The files are linted but there is still an error "Invalid lint configuration. Nothing to lint.". Same effect when success and error.

      "lint": {
                    "builder": "@angular-devkit/build-angular:tslint",
                    "options": {
                        "tslintConfig": "tslint.json",
                        "tsConfig": [
                            "tsconfig.app.json"
                        ],
                        "files": [
                            "source/**/*.ts"
                        ],
                        "exclude": [
                            "source/**/*.spec.ts",
                            "source/**/*.mock.ts"
                        ]
                    }
                }

Observed behavior

[adamunchained]

I'm experiencing same error. Any ideas what it might be? It seems to be processing the files but at the end it throws this error message.

[GerritK]

Same error here. Would be nice to see it fixed soon.

[AlexGS74]

As far as I understand, ng lint command runs lint configs for all projects. By default, even if you created just one, you actually have two configured in angular.json: the main and e2e version. I can imagine if you add no e2e test it will complain about wrong configuration as there is no single test to run.

I'd say it's not a bug. To workaround, you can:

1. Add a e2e test spec,
2. Or remove e2e configuration if you don't plan to do e2e at all;
3. Or run linting per project: ng lint project-name

[akinorew]

@AlexGS74 Thank you for that explanation. It fixed my issue, I just removed lint for e2e tests. Would it be possible to add to that error message name of the project, so that it's easier to figure out what is going on?

[filipesilva]

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