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react/require-render-return Nursery

What it does

Require render methods in ES5 and ES2015 React components to return a value.

This rule is not relevant for function components, and so can potentially be disabled for modern React codebases.

Why is this bad?

When writing the render method in a component it is easy to forget to return the JSX content. This rule will warn if the return statement is missing.

Examples

Examples of incorrect code for this rule:

jsx
var Hello = createReactClass({
  render() {
    <div>Hello</div>;
  },
});

class Hello extends React.Component {
  render() {
    <div>Hello</div>;
  }
}

Examples of correct code for this rule:

jsx
var Hello = createReactClass({
  render() {
    return <div>Hello</div>;
  },
});

class Hello extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return <div>Hello</div>;
  }
}

How to use

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

json
{
  "plugins": ["react"],
  "rules": {
    "react/require-render-return": "error"
  }
}
ts
import { defineConfig } from "oxlint";

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: ["react"],
  rules: {
    "react/require-render-return": "error",
  },
});
bash
oxlint --deny react/require-render-return --react-plugin

Version

This rule was added in v0.2.0.

References