Processor without npm module

[Splines]

Hey there, I was wondering if it was possible to define a preprocessor as JS object and include it directly in the ESLint config. In the Custom Processor documentation it is assumed that one has to create a separate npm module for that, which feels like a lot of extra work if one just wants to get a very small and basic processor to work.

E.g. I'm looking to do something along the lines of this:

// inside .eslintrc.js
const myCustomProcessor = { /* processor methods */ };
module.exports = {
  parserOptions: {...},
  // other stuff,
  overrides: [
    {
      files: ["**/*.my.file.extension"],
      processor: myCustomProcessor // not a string, but instead the Object defined above (or maybe in another file)
    }
  ],
};

[nzakas]

In eslintrc, the processor must be part of a plugin. There's no way around it.

However, if you use the new config system, you can just provide an object as the value of processor.

[Splines]

Ah thanks, good to know. In the end, the processor turned out to be big enough to be outsourced to its own npm module, so I didn't have the problem anymore ;)