no-assign-require.md

Disallow assignment to require or window.require (no-assign-require)

RequireJS allows you to pass configuration options by assigning to global variable require before RequireJS is loaded. This form of passing config may not work with third-party module loaders such as Almond, however.

In other cases, overwriting require is probably an error, and should be avoided.

Rule Details

The following patterns are considered warnings:

var require = {
    /* ... config ... */
};

window.require = {
    /* ... config ... */
}

The following pattern is not a warning:

// Not a potential overwrite
foo.require = 'bar';

When Not To Use It

If you aren't using a third-party module loader and you wish to pass configuration this way, then it is safe to disable this rule.

Further Reading

• RequireJS Configuration Options
• Almond Restrictions