Enforces naming conventions for class members by visibility. (member-naming)

It can be helpful to enforce naming conventions for private (and sometimes protected) members of an object. For example, prefixing private properties with a _ allows them to be easily discerned when being inspected by tools that do not have knowledge of TypeScript (such as most debuggers).

Rule Details

This rule allows you to enforce conventions for class property and method names by their visibility. By default, it enforces nothing.

Note: constructors are explicitly ignored regardless of the the regular expression options provided

Options

You can specify a regular expression to test the names of properties for each visibility level: public, protected, private.

Examples of correct code with { "private": "^_" } specified:

class HappyClass {
  private _foo: string;
  private _bar = 123;
  private _fizz() {}
}

Examples of incorrect code with { "private": "^_" } specified:

class SadClass {
  private foo: string;
  private bar = 123;
  private fizz() {}
}

When Not To Use It

If you do not want to enforce per-visibility naming rules for member properties.

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