Cannot read config file: .eslintrc

[stumpy1982]

I generate a new project with the V1.8 on several machines with node version 6.2.2 and after installation i got this error:

Users/<username>/<projectfolder>/<projectname>/node_modules/eslint/lib/config/config-file.js:402
            throw e;
            ^
Error: Cannot read config file: /Users/<username>/<projectfolder>/app/.eslintrc
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/<username>/<projectfolder>/app/.eslintrc'
Referenced from: /Users/<username>/<projectfolder>/<projectname>/test/karma/.eslintrc
    at Error (native)
    at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:634:18)
    at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:502:33)
    at readFile (/Users/<username>/<projectfolder>/<projectname>/node_modules/eslint/lib/config/config-file.js:71:15)
    at loadLegacyConfigFile (/Users/<username>/<projectfolder>/<projectname>/node_modules/eslint/lib/config/config-file.js:143:44)
    at loadConfigFile (/Users//<username>/<projectfolder>/<projectname>/node_modules/eslint/lib/config/config-file.js:223:22)
    at load (/Users/<username>/<projectfolder>/<projectname>/node_modules/eslint/lib/config/config-file.js:500:18)
    at /Users/<username>/<projectfolder>/<projectname>/node_modules/eslint/lib/config/config-file.js:392:36
    at Array.reduceRight (native)
    at applyExtends (/Users/<username>/<projectfolder>/<projectname>/node_modules/eslint/lib/config/config-file.js:363:28)
    at Object.load (/Users/<username>/<projectfolder>/<projectname>/node_modules/eslint/lib/config/config-file.js:531:22)
    at loadConfig (/Users/<username>/<projectfolder>/<projectname>/node_modules/eslint/lib/config.js:64:33)
    at getLocalConfig (/Users/<username>/<projectfolder>/<projectname>/node_modules/eslint/lib/config.js:126:23)
    at Config.getConfig (/Users/<username>/<projectfolder>/<projectname>/node_modules/eslint/lib/config.js:227:22)
    at processText (/Users/<username>/<projectfolder>/<projectname>/node_modules/eslint/lib/cli-engine.js:223:27)
    at CLIEngine.executeOnText (/Users/<username>/<projectfolder>/<projectname>/node_modules/eslint/lib/cli-engine.js:761:26)

The solution for this problem was to update the path of my protractor and karma .eslintrc to this: "../app/.eslintrc"

[nadouani]

+1

[lordgreg]

👍

[gruppjo]

The latest eslint release (3 days ago) changed how extend works.

I'll give this a closer look this week.

So for a quick fix simply correct the following line in test/karma/.eslintrc and test/protractor/.eslintrc:

"extends": "../app/.eslintrc",

Although I'm a little surprised because the paths are correct in their original state, which is ../../app/.eslintrc and not ../app/.eslintrc. However the error displayed in gulp suggests that eslint adds an additional ../ and thus traverses out of the project dir.

[gruppjo]

I can no longer reproduce this as of today. @lordgreg, @nadouani, @stumpy1982. Can you confirm?

1. Restore the paths in the .eslintrc files
2. To make sure you're running the latest versions of eslint or gulp-eslint delete the node modules folder rm -f node_modules and run npm install again.