useNodeAssertStrict (JavaScript)

Language JavaScript (and super languages)

Summary

Rule available since: v1.6.0
Diagnostic Category: lint/style/useNodeAssertStrict
This rule isn’t recommended, so you need to enable it.
This rule has a safe fix.
The default severity of this rule is warning.

How to configure

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{
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  "linter": {
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    "rules": {
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      "style": {
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        "useNodeAssertStrict": "error"
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      }
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    }
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  }
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}

Description

Prefer node:assert/strict over node:assert.

The strict module exposes the same assertion API, but legacy methods such as equal() and deepEqual() use strict comparison behavior. This avoids surprising results caused by automatic type conversion.

Examples

Invalid

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import * as assert from "node:assert"

code-block.js:1:25 lint/style/useNodeAssertStrict  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ⚠ Use node:assert/strict instead.
  
  > 1 │ import * as assert from "node:assert"
      │                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    2 │ 
  
  ℹ The use of stricter assertion is preferred.
  
  ℹ Safe fix: Replace with node:assert/strict.
  
    1 │ import·*·as·assert·from·"node:assert/strict"
      │                                     +++++++

Valid

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import * as assert from "node:assert/strict"