sort-enums

type

Specifies the sorting method.

• 'alphabetical' — Sort items alphabetically (e.g., “a” < “b” < “c”) using localeCompare.
• 'natural' — Sort items in a natural order (e.g., “item2” < “item10”).
• 'line-length' — Sort items by the length of the code line (shorter lines first).
• 'custom' — Sort items using the alphabet entered in the alphabet option.
• 'unsorted' — Do not sort items. grouping and newlines behavior are still enforced.

order

Determines whether the sorted items should be in ascending or descending order.

• 'asc' — Sort items in ascending order (A to Z, 1 to 9).
• 'desc' — Sort items in descending order (Z to A, 9 to 1).

fallbackSort

Defines a list of fallback sort options to use when comparing two elements that are equal according to the primary sort type.

Example: enforce alphabetical sort between two elements with the same length.

{
  type: 'line-length',
  order: 'desc'
  fallbackSort: { type: 'alphabetical', order: 'asc' }
}

alphabet

Only used when the type option is set to 'custom'. Specifies the custom alphabet to use when sorting.

Use the Alphabet utility class from eslint-plugin-perfectionist/alphabet to quickly generate a custom alphabet.

Example: 0123456789abcdef...

ignoreCase

Controls whether sorting should be case-sensitive or not.

• true — Ignore case when sorting alphabetically or naturally (e.g., “A” and “a” are the same).
• false — Consider case when sorting (e.g., “a” comes before “A”).

specialCharacters

Controls whether special characters should be trimmed, removed or kept before sorting.

• 'keep' — Keep special characters when sorting (e.g., “_a” comes before “a”).
• 'trim' — Trim special characters when sorting alphabetically or naturally (e.g., “_a” and “a” are the same).
• 'remove' — Remove special characters when sorting (e.g., “/a/b” and “ab” are the same).

locales

Specifies the sorting locales. See String.prototype.localeCompare() - locales.

• string — A BCP 47 language tag (e.g. 'en', 'en-US', 'zh-CN').
• string[] — An array of BCP 47 language tags.

sortByValue

Controls whether sorting should be done using the enum’s values or names.

• true — Use enum values.
• false — Use enum names.

When this setting is true, numeric enums will have their values sorted numerically regardless of the type setting.

forceNumericSort

Controls whether numeric enums should always be sorted numerically, regardless of the type and sortByValue settings.

• true — Use enum values.
• false — Use enum names.

partitionByComment

Allows you to use comments to separate the members of enums into logical groups. This can help in organizing and maintaining large enums by creating partitions within the enum based on comments.

• true — All comments will be treated as delimiters, creating partitions.
• false — Comments will not be used as delimiters.
• RegExpPattern = string | { pattern: string; flags: string} — A regexp pattern to specify which comments should act as delimiters.
• RegExpPattern[] — A list of regexp patterns to specify which comments should act as delimiters.
• { block: boolean | RegExpPattern | RegExpPattern[]; line: boolean | RegExpPattern | RegExpPattern[] } — Specify which block and line comments should act as delimiters.

partitionByNewLine

When true, the rule will not sort the members of an enum if there is an empty line between them. This can be useful for keeping logically separated groups of members in their defined order.

enum Enum {
  // Group 1
  C = 'C',
  D = 'D',

  // Group 2
  B = 'B',

  // Group 3
  A = 'A',
  E = 'E',
}

Each group of enum members (separated by empty lines) is treated independently, and the order within each group is preserved.

newlinesBetween

Specifies how new lines should be handled between enum members.

• ignore — Do not report errors related to new lines between enum members.
• always — Enforce one new line between each group, and forbid new lines inside a group.
• never — No new lines are allowed in enums.

You can also enforce the newline behavior between two specific groups through the groups options.

See the groups option.

This option is only applicable when partitionByNewLine is false.

groups

Allows you to specify a list of groups for sorting. Groups help organize elements into categories.

Each element will be assigned a single group specified in the groups option (or the unknown group if no match is found). The order of items in the groups option determines how groups are ordered.

Within a given group, members will be sorted according to the type, order, ignoreCase, etc. options.

Individual groups can be combined together by placing them in an array. The order of groups in that array does not matter. All members of the groups in the array will be sorted together as if they were part of a single group.

{
  newlinesBetween: 'always',
  groups: [
    'a',
    { newlinesBetween: 'never' }, // Overrides the global newlinesBetween option
    'b',
  ]
}

customGroups

You can define your own groups and use regexp patterns to match specific elements.

A custom group definition may follow one of the two following interfaces:

interface CustomGroupDefinition {
  groupName: string
  type?: 'alphabetical' | 'natural' | 'line-length' | 'unsorted'
  order?: 'asc' | 'desc'
  elementNamePattern?: string | string[] | { pattern: string; flags?: string } | { pattern: string; flags?: string }[]
}

An enum member will match a CustomGroupDefinition group if it matches all the filters of the custom group’s definition.

or:

interface CustomGroupAnyOfDefinition {
  groupName: string
  type?: 'alphabetical' | 'natural' | 'line-length' | 'unsorted'
  order?: 'asc' | 'desc'
  anyOf: Array<{
      elementNamePattern?: string | string[] | { pattern: string; flags?: string } | { pattern: string; flags?: string }[]
  }>
}

An enum member will match a CustomGroupAnyOfDefinition group if it matches all the filters of at least one of the anyOf items.