eslint: Illegal import declaration

Just updated to 0.17.1 and still getting the error: Illegal import declaration on the following line.

import request from 'superagent';

And here is my .eslintrc

{
  "ecmaFeatures": {
    "jsx": true
  },
  "env": {
    "browser": true,
    "node": true,
    "es6": true
  },
  "rules": {
    "strict": 0,
    "no-underscore-dangle": 0,
    "quotes": [
      2,
      "single"
    ]
  }
}

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 9 years ago
Comments: 29 (17 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

added rule to allow for es6 imports based on this comment - https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/2112#issuecomment-83633766 — committed to 1stdibs/eslint-config-1stdibs by hellatan 8 years ago

Most upvoted comments

this works for me:

"parserOptions": {
     "ecmaVersion": 6,
     "sourceType": "module"
}

orangewise on Mar 31, 2016

You need to enable modules via ecmaFeatures: { modules: true }

nzakas on Mar 19, 2015

@brettz9 imports are only valid in the top level scope. Babel allows you to do them in the inner scopes, but that’s incorrect and doesn’t adhere to the es6 spec.

ilyavolodin on Feb 17, 2016

{
    "parser": "babel-eslint",
    "env": {
        "browser": true,
        "node": true,
        "es6": true
    },
    "ecmaFeatures": {
        "modules": true
    },
    "rules": {
    }
}

That’s what I have and I still keep seeing “Illegal import declaration” and “Illegal export declaration” for all of my files. I just installed everything yesterday, so it should be up-to-date. I’ve tried several different ways of doing ES2015 imports and exports (e.g. named vs default exports, etc.), but I’m still getting the errors.

joezimjs on Jul 27, 2015

Came here from Google, so in case it helps anyone else, I’ll add that my problem was the parser esprima-fb, when using babel-eslint the error went away.

stofte on Jun 12, 2015

@Hancoson can you open a new ticket or come by our ESLint Gitter? Thanks!

vitorbal on Mar 22, 2017

Babel only allows it with parser option: allowImportExportEverywhere set to true

hzoo on Feb 17, 2016