eslint-config-airbnb-base provides a foundational, shareable ESLint configuration based on Airbnb's JavaScript style guide. It enforces consistent code style and best practices for ES6+ JavaScript projects, excluding React-specific rules. This base configuration offers a solid starting point for developers seeking to adhere to Airbnb's widely respected style guide, promoting code readability and maintainability while focusing purely on JavaScript fundamentals. Ideal for non-React projects, it encourages cleaner and more standardized codebases.
The npm package eslint-config-airbnb-base had frequent releases in 2016 and 2017. The release frequency significantly decreased from 2018 onwards, with only a few releases occurring in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. Since November 2021, there have been no new releases for the package.
eslint-config-airbnb-base downloads show variability. From March 2024 to August 2025, downloads fluctuated between 24 million and 35 million. There was then then a large descrease for August 2025. September 2025 which is today, is not complete and indicates a very small amount of downloads.
