eslint-plugin-react-hooks 6.1/7: recommended is flat config, flat/recommended removed, compiler rules on by default
Flat config (eslint.config.js), as in the current README:
import reactHooks from 'eslint-plugin-react-hooks';
import { defineConfig } from 'eslint/config';
export default defineConfig([
reactHooks.configs.flat.recommended,
]);
Legacy .eslintrc: on 6.1.x use extends: ['plugin:react-hooks/recommended-legacy']; on 7.x extends: ['plugin:react-hooks/recommended'].
If the new React-Compiler-derived rules are too noisy for now, configure rules explicitly instead of the preset:
{ plugins: { 'react-hooks': reactHooks },
rules: { 'react-hooks/rules-of-hooks': 'error', 'react-hooks/exhaustive-deps': 'warn' } }
Prefer fixing the reported code — the rules flag patterns that break under React Compiler.
Symptom
After bumping eslint-plugin-react-hooks (6.1.0 on 2025-10-01, 7.0.0 on 2025-10-08), either the .eslintrc extends: ['plugin:react-hooks/recommended'] breaks, a flat config referencing reactHooks.configs['flat/recommended'] or recommended-latest-legacy no longer resolves, or lint suddenly reports many new errors (e.g. react-hooks/set-state-in-effect, react-hooks/refs, react-hooks/purity, react-hooks/immutability).
Cause
- 6.1.0: "Flat config is now the default
recommendedpreset. Legacy config moved torecommended-legacy." Also requires Node.js 18+. (6.0.0 was an accidental release.) - 7.0.0: presets slimmed to
recommendedandrecommended-latest(each with legacy and flat variants); "all compiler rules are enabled by default"; "Removedrecommended-latest-legacyandflat/recommendedconfigs."
Verify
npx eslint . loads the config without config-not-found errors and npm ls eslint-plugin-react-hooks shows the version you configured for.
Sources
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