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Overview
Airbnb's JavaScript Style Guide documents coding conventions with rationale, examples, and links to ESLint rules. The same conventions are distributed as eslint-config-airbnb and eslint-config-airbnb-base so teams can enforce much of the guide automatically.
Features and best fit
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Key features
Centralize JavaScript conventions with rationale and examples
The guide covers variables, objects and arrays, destructuring, functions, modules, comparisons, naming, whitespace, testing, and many other conventions with bad/good examples and explanations.
Sources: [1]
Turn the guide into automated checks with shared ESLint configs
eslint-config-airbnb includes ES6+ and React rules, while eslint-config-airbnb-base is available for projects that do not use React.
Sources: [2]
Best fit
Fits teams that want a known JavaScript baseline quickly
It provides a recognizable starting point for code review and linting that teams can selectively override instead of designing every convention from scratch.
Sources: [1]
Before adoption
eslint-config-airbnb 19.0.4 supports ESLint 7 and 8 in peer dependencies
The current package manifest lists ESLint ^7.32.0 or ^8.2.0 and does not include ESLint 9. Projects standardized on ESLint 9 and flat config need a compatibility approach or a different config.
Sources: [3]
The documented setup uses legacy .eslintrc configuration
The package README instructs users to add extends: airbnb to .eslintrc. That procedure does not directly map to projects already migrated to ESLint flat config.
Sources: [2]
Official sources
- [1]Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide(2026-10-03)
- [2]eslint-config-airbnb README(2026-10-03)
- [3]eslint-config-airbnb package manifest(2026-10-03)
- [4]eslint-config-airbnb-base package manifest(2026-10-03)
- [5]Airbnb JavaScript MIT license(2026-10-03)
Supplemental curator note
This guide is useful as a well-known baseline for team JavaScript review rules. However, the current ESLint config does not include ESLint 9 in its peer range and documents legacy .eslintrc usage, so modern projects should verify toolchain compatibility before adopting it unchanged.
Try it in 3 steps
- 1
Install Airbnb's ESLint config and peer dependencies
Use the package README workflow. Do not use this unchanged on ESLint 9 projects because ESLint 9 is outside the current peer range.
npx install-peerdeps --dev eslint-config-airbnb@19.0.4 - 2
Extend the legacy ESLint configuration
Use eslint-config-airbnb-base when React is not needed. Merge the extends setting instead of overwriting an existing configuration.
printf '{ "extends": ["airbnb", "airbnb/hooks"] } ' > .eslintrc.json - 3
Run lint and review the delta
Review violations against the existing codebase and decide which project-specific overrides the team needs.
npx eslint . --ext .js,.jsx,.mjs
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- javascript
- eslint
- naming-conventions
- arrow-functions
- style-guide
- style-linter
- es6
- es2015
- linting
- styleguide
- es2016
- es2017
- Stars
- 148,304
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- Open issues
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- JavaScript
- License
- MIT
- Repository last updated
- Apr 16, 2026
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