eslint/no-global-assign Correctness

✅ This rule is turned on by default.

Disallow modifications to read-only global variables.

In almost all cases, you don't want to assign a value to these global variables as doing so could result in losing access to important functionality.

Examples of incorrect code for this rule:

javascript

Object = null;

Configuration

This rule accepts a configuration object with the following properties:

type: string[]

default: []

List of global variable names to exclude from this rule. Globals listed here can be assigned to without triggering warnings.

To enable this rule using the config file or in the CLI, you can use:

Config (.oxlintrc.json)Config (oxlint.config.ts)CLI

json

{
  "rules": {
    "no-global-assign": "error"
  }
}

import { defineConfig } from "oxlint";

export default defineConfig({
  rules: {
    "no-global-assign": "error",
  },
});

bash

oxlint --deny no-global-assign

This rule was added in v0.0.7.