Add linter error preventing use of async outside the test suite

.eslintrc

@@ -219,6 +219,8 @@
     "vars-on-top": 0,
     "wrap-iife": 2,
     "wrap-regex": 0,
-    "yoda": [2, "never", {"exceptRange": true}]
+    "yoda": [2, "never", {"exceptRange": true}],
+
+    "no-async": 2
   }
 }

package.json

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     "test": "npm run lint && npm run check && npm run testonly",
     "testonly": "babel-node ./node_modules/.bin/_mocha $npm_package_options_mocha",
     "t": "babel-node ./node_modules/.bin/_mocha --require ./resources/mocha-bootload",
-    "lint": "eslint src || (printf '\\033[33mTry: \\033[7m npm run lint -- --fix \\033[0m\\n' && exit 1)",
+    "lint": "eslint --rulesdir ./resources/lint src || (printf '\\033[33mTry: \\033[7m npm run lint -- --fix \\033[0m\\n' && exit 1)",
     "check": "flow check",
     "check-cover": "for file in {src/*.js,src/**/*.js}; do echo $file; flow coverage $file; done",
     "build": "babel src --optional runtime --ignore __tests__ --out-dir dist/ && cp package.json dist/ && npm run build-dot-flow",

resources/lint/no-async.js

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2017, Facebook, Inc.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+ * of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+ */
+
+module.exports = function(context) {
+  if (context.getFilename().match(/\b__tests__\b/)) {
+    return {};
+  } else {
+    return {
+      FunctionDeclaration: function(node) {
+        if (node.async) {
+          context.report(
+            node,
+            'async functions are not allowed outside of the test suite ' +
+            'because older versions of NodeJS do not support them ' +
+            'without additional runtime dependencies. Instead, use explicit ' +
+            'Promises.'
+          );
+        }
+      },
+    };
+  }
+};