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ESLint 10 looks up eslint.config.* from each linted file's directory, not the cwd — affects monorepos

Fix
  • Remove the old flag everywhere: --flag v10_config_lookup_from_file on the CLI, the ESLINT_FLAGS env var, and the flags array passed to new ESLint() / new Linter() (npx codemod @eslint/v9-to-v10 does this).
  • If you want one config for the whole repo (old cwd-based behaviour), pass it explicitly:
npx eslint --config ./eslint.config.js .
  • Otherwise, make sure each package's eslint.config.js is complete on its own (it no longer inherits anything from the root unless it imports it):
// packages/web/eslint.config.js
import { defineConfig } from 'eslint/config'
import root from '../../eslint.config.js'
export default defineConfig([root, { rules: { 'no-console': 'off' } }])

Also required for v10: Node.js 20.19+, 22.13+ or 24+ (Node < 20.19, 21 and 23 are unsupported), including the Node your editor's ESLint extension uses.

Symptom

After upgrading to ESLint 10, running npx eslint . from a monorepo root lints packages/*/src files with each package's own eslint.config.js instead of the root config (or vice versa), so results change between v9 and v10. Scripts still passing --flag v10_config_lookup_from_file now error out.

Cause

In ESLint v9 the config file was located starting from the current working directory. v9 offered the alternate behaviour behind the v10_config_lookup_from_file feature flag. ESLint v10.0.0 (2026-02-06) made it the default: ESLint searches for eslint.config.* starting from the directory of each linted file and walking up toward the filesystem root. The feature flag was removed, and passing it is now an error.

Verify

npx eslint --print-config packages/web/src/index.js shows the config you expect for that file.

Sources

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