noExcessiveLinesPerFile

Summary

Rule available since: v2.3.12
Diagnostic Category: lint/style/noExcessiveLinesPerFile
This rule isn’t recommended, so you need to enable it.
This rule doesn’t have a fix.
The default severity of this rule is information.

How to configure

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{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": "error"
6
      }
7
    }
8
  }
9
}

Description

Restrict the number of lines in a file.

Large files tend to do many things and can make it hard to follow what’s going on. This rule can help enforce a limit on the number of lines in a file.

Examples

Invalid

The following example will show a diagnostic when maxLines is set to 2:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 2
8
          }
9
        }
10
      }
11
    }
12
  }
13
}

1
.a { color: red; }
2
.b { color: blue; }
3
.c { color: green; }

code-block.css:1:1 lint/style/noExcessiveLinesPerFile ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ℹ This file has too many lines (3). Maximum allowed is 2.
  
  > 1 │ .a { color: red; }
      │ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  > 2 │ .b { color: blue; }
  > 3 │ .c { color: green; }
      │ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    4 │ 
  
  ℹ Consider splitting this file into smaller files.

Valid

1
.a { color: red; }
2
.b { color: blue; }

Options

`maxLines`

This option sets the maximum number of lines allowed in a file. If the file exceeds this limit, a diagnostic will be reported.

Default: 300

Examples

The default value for maxLines is 300. The following example shows how to set the maxLines option to a smaller value. It reports a diagnostic because the file has more than 4 lines:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 4
8
          }
9
        }
10
      }
11
    }
12
  }
13
}

1
.a { color: red; }
2
.b { color: blue; }
3
.c { color: green; }
4
.d { color: yellow; }
5
.e { color: purple; }

code-block.css:1:1 lint/style/noExcessiveLinesPerFile ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ℹ This file has too many lines (5). Maximum allowed is 4.
  
  > 1 │ .a { color: red; }
      │ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  > 2 │ .b { color: blue; }
  > 3 │ .c { color: green; }
  > 4 │ .d { color: yellow; }
  > 5 │ .e { color: purple; }
      │ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    6 │ 
  
  ℹ Consider splitting this file into smaller files.

`skipBlankLines`

When this option is set to true, blank lines are not counted towards the maximum line limit.

Default: false

Examples

The following example shows how skipBlankLines can prevent a diagnostic by excluding blank lines from the total count:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 2,
8
            "skipBlankLines": true
9
          }
10
        }
11
      }
12
    }
13
  }
14
}

1
.a { color: red; }
2

3

4
.b { color: blue; }

Suppressions

If you need to exceed the line limit in a specific file, you can suppress this rule at the top of the file:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 2
8
          }
9
        }
10
      }
11
    }
12
  }
13
}

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/* biome-ignore-all lint/style/noExcessiveLinesPerFile: generated file */
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.a { color: red; }
3
.b { color: blue; }
4
.c { color: green; }

Summary

Rule available since: v2.3.12
Diagnostic Category: lint/style/noExcessiveLinesPerFile
This rule isn’t recommended, so you need to enable it.
This rule doesn’t have a fix.
The default severity of this rule is information.

How to configure

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": "error"
6
      }
7
    }
8
  }
9
}

Description

Restrict the number of lines in a file.

Large files tend to do many things and can make it hard to follow what’s going on. This rule can help enforce a limit on the number of lines in a file.

Examples

Invalid

The following example will show a diagnostic when maxLines is set to 2:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 2
8
          }
9
        }
10
      }
11
    }
12
  }
13
}

1
query Foo { id }
2
query Bar { id }
3
query Baz { id }

Valid

1
query Foo { id }
2
query Bar { id }

Options

`maxLines`

This option sets the maximum number of lines allowed in a file. If the file exceeds this limit, a diagnostic will be reported.

Default: 300

Examples

The default value for maxLines is 300. The following example shows how to set the maxLines option to a smaller value. It reports a diagnostic because the file has more than 4 lines:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 4
8
          }
9
        }
10
      }
11
    }
12
  }
13
}

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query Foo { id }
2
query Bar { id }
3
query Baz { id }
4
query Qux { id }
5
query Quux { id }

`skipBlankLines`

When this option is set to true, blank lines are not counted towards the maximum line limit.

Default: false

Examples

The following example shows how skipBlankLines can prevent a diagnostic by excluding blank lines from the total count:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 2,
8
            "skipBlankLines": true
9
          }
10
        }
11
      }
12
    }
13
  }
14
}

1
query Foo { id }
2

3

4
query Bar { id }

Suppressions

If you need to exceed the line limit in a specific file, you can suppress this rule at the top of the file:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 2
8
          }
9
        }
10
      }
11
    }
12
  }
13
}

1
query Foo { id }
2
query Bar { id }
3
query Baz { id }

Summary

Rule available since: v2.3.12
Diagnostic Category: lint/style/noExcessiveLinesPerFile
This rule isn’t recommended, so you need to enable it.
This rule doesn’t have a fix.
The default severity of this rule is information.
Sources:
- Inspired from max-lines

How to configure

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": "error"
6
      }
7
    }
8
  }
9
}

Description

Restrict the number of lines in a file.

Large files tend to do many things and can make it hard to follow what’s going on. This rule can help enforce a limit on the number of lines in a file.

Examples

Invalid

The following example will show a diagnostic when maxLines is set to 2:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 2
8
          }
9
        }
10
      }
11
    }
12
  }
13
}

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const a = 1;
2
const b = 2;
3
const c = 3;

code-block.js:1:1 lint/style/noExcessiveLinesPerFile ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ℹ This file has too many lines (3). Maximum allowed is 2.
  
  > 1 │ const a = 1;
      │ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  > 2 │ const b = 2;
  > 3 │ const c = 3;
      │ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
    4 │ 
  
  ℹ Consider splitting this file into smaller files.

Valid

1
const a = 1;
2
const b = 2;

Options

`maxLines`

This option sets the maximum number of lines allowed in a file. If the file exceeds this limit, a diagnostic will be reported.

Default: 300

Examples

The default value for maxLines is 300. The following example shows how to set the maxLines option to a smaller value. It reports a diagnostic because the file has more than 4 lines:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 4
8
          }
9
        }
10
      }
11
    }
12
  }
13
}

1
const a = 1;
2
const b = 2;
3
const c = 3;
4
const d = 4;
5
const e = 5;

code-block.js:1:1 lint/style/noExcessiveLinesPerFile ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ℹ This file has too many lines (5). Maximum allowed is 4.
  
  > 1 │ const a = 1;
      │ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  > 2 │ const b = 2;
  > 3 │ const c = 3;
  > 4 │ const d = 4;
  > 5 │ const e = 5;
      │ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
    6 │ 
  
  ℹ Consider splitting this file into smaller files.

`skipBlankLines`

When this option is set to true, blank lines are not counted towards the maximum line limit.

Default: false

Examples

The following example shows how skipBlankLines can prevent a diagnostic by excluding blank lines from the total count:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 2,
8
            "skipBlankLines": true
9
          }
10
        }
11
      }
12
    }
13
  }
14
}

1
const a = 1;
2

3

4
const b = 2;

Suppressions

If you need to exceed the line limit in a specific file, you can suppress this rule at the top of the file:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 2
8
          }
9
        }
10
      }
11
    }
12
  }
13
}

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// biome-ignore-all lint/style/noExcessiveLinesPerFile: generated file
2
const a = 1;
3
const b = 2;
4
const c = 3;

Summary

Rule available since: v2.5.0
Diagnostic Category: lint/style/noExcessiveLinesPerFile
This rule isn’t recommended, so you need to enable it.
This rule doesn’t have a fix.
The default severity of this rule is information.

How to configure

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": "error"
6
      }
7
    }
8
  }
9
}

Description

Restrict the number of lines in a file.

Large files tend to do many things and can make it hard to follow what’s going on. This rule can help enforce a limit on the number of lines in a file.

Examples

Invalid

The following example will show a diagnostic when maxLines is set to 2:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 2
8
          }
9
        }
10
      }
11
    }
12
  }
13
}

1
<div></div>
2
<span></span>
3
<p></p>

Valid

1
<div></div>
2
<span></span>

Options

`maxLines`

This option sets the maximum number of lines allowed in a file. If the file exceeds this limit, a diagnostic will be reported.

Default: 300

Examples

The default value for maxLines is 300. The following example shows how to set the maxLines option to a smaller value. It reports a diagnostic because the file has more than 4 lines:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 4
8
          }
9
        }
10
      }
11
    }
12
  }
13
}

1
<div>Line 1</div>
2
<div>Line 2</div>
3
<div>Line 3</div>
4
<div>Line 4</div>
5
<div>Line 5</div>

`skipBlankLines`

When this option is set to true, blank lines are not counted towards the maximum line limit.

Default: false

Examples

The following example shows how skipBlankLines can prevent a diagnostic by excluding blank lines from the total count:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 2,
8
            "skipBlankLines": true
9
          }
10
        }
11
      }
12
    }
13
  }
14
}

1
<div></div>
2

3

4
<span></span>

Suppressions

If you need to exceed the line limit in a specific file, you can suppress this rule at the top of the file:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "style": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 2
8
          }
9
        }
10
      }
11
    }
12
  }
13
}

1
<!-- biome-ignore-all lint/style/noExcessiveLinesPerFile: generated file -->
2
<div></div>
3
<span></span>
4
<p></p>

Summary

Diagnostic Category: lint/nursery/noExcessiveLinesPerFile
This rule doesn’t have a fix.
The default severity of this rule is information.

How to configure

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "nursery": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": "error"
6
      }
7
    }
8
  }
9
}

Description

Restrict the number of lines in a file.

Large files tend to do many things and can make it hard to follow what’s going on. This rule can help enforce a limit on the number of lines in a file.

Examples

Invalid

The following example will show a diagnostic when maxLines is set to 2:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "nursery": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 2
8
          }
9
        }
10
      }
11
    }
12
  }
13
}

1
<div></div>
2
<span></span>
3
<p></p>

Valid

1
<div></div>
2
<span></span>

Options

`maxLines`

This option sets the maximum number of lines allowed in a file. If the file exceeds this limit, a diagnostic will be reported.

Default: 300

Examples

The default value for maxLines is 300. The following example shows how to set the maxLines option to a smaller value. It reports a diagnostic because the file has more than 4 lines:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "nursery": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 4
8
          }
9
        }
10
      }
11
    }
12
  }
13
}

1
<div>Line 1</div>
2
<div>Line 2</div>
3
<div>Line 3</div>
4
<div>Line 4</div>
5
<div>Line 5</div>

`skipBlankLines`

When this option is set to true, blank lines are not counted towards the maximum line limit.

Default: false

Examples

The following example shows how skipBlankLines can prevent a diagnostic by excluding blank lines from the total count:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "nursery": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 2,
8
            "skipBlankLines": true
9
          }
10
        }
11
      }
12
    }
13
  }
14
}

1
<div></div>
2

3

4
<span></span>

Suppressions

If you need to exceed the line limit in a specific file, you can suppress this rule at the top of the file:

1
{
2
  "linter": {
3
    "rules": {
4
      "nursery": {
5
        "noExcessiveLinesPerFile": {
6
          "options": {
7
            "maxLines": 2
8
          }
9
        }
10
      }
11
    }
12
  }
13
}

1
<!-- biome-ignore lint/nursery/noExcessiveLinesPerFile: generated file -->
2
<div></div>
3
<span></span>
4
<p></p>

noExcessiveLinesPerFile

Summary

How to configure

Description

Examples

Invalid

Valid

Options

maxLines

Examples

skipBlankLines

Examples

Suppressions

Related links

Summary

How to configure

Description

Examples

Invalid

Valid

Options

maxLines

Examples

skipBlankLines

Examples

Suppressions

Related links

Summary

How to configure

Description

Examples

Invalid

Valid

Options

maxLines

Examples

skipBlankLines

Examples

Suppressions

Related links

Summary

How to configure

Description

Examples

Invalid

Valid

Options

maxLines

Examples

skipBlankLines

Examples

Suppressions

Related links

Summary

How to configure

Description

Examples

Invalid

Valid

Options

maxLines

Examples

skipBlankLines

Examples

Suppressions

Related links

`maxLines`

`skipBlankLines`

`maxLines`

`skipBlankLines`

`maxLines`

`skipBlankLines`

`maxLines`

`skipBlankLines`

`maxLines`

`skipBlankLines`