This is an internal change that only affects developers of our theme. This PR:
- **upgrades `Stylelint` to `v15`!**
- among other things, this leads to the deprecation of many stylistic rules, which overlap with Prettier
- it also sees the addition of new rules that catch more errors, especially `declaration-property-value-no-unknown`!
- upgrades the accompanying standard config (the SCSS one extends the first-party one); this new config disables the deprecated rules that overlap with Prettier
- removes a now-unneeded plugin that disables overlapping rules
- moves the `stylelint` config object to `package.json` - now we have one less file (particularly important since people still clone this repo)
There were very few new changes; I combined one string that had a dangling `+` in an SCSS warning, and have temporarily disabled the `at-rule-empty-line-before` rule (which also picks up on SCSS `@includes`).
This is a catch-all PR that modernizes and updates our Stylelint config, and resolves all open issues. This is a pretty big change - so I want to update all of our related dependencies in lockstep.
In particular, this PR
- [x] updates stylelint to `v14`
- [x] adds in the standard stylelint config for SCSS (`stylelint-config-standard-scss`)
- [x] swaps out `stylelint-config-prettier` for `stylelint-config-prettier-scss`
- [x] ~~properly update `@primer`-related plugins:~~ completely remove `primer` from our configuration
- [x] autofix, manually resolve, or disable all newly-introduced lint errors; **I've avoided manually resolving errors that would be a behavioural change**
- [x] re-runs `npm run format`
See the "next steps" section on some extra thoughts on disabling errors.
(implicitly, I'm also using node 16/the new package-lock format).
### disabling rules and next steps
I've introduced several new disabled rules. Let me quickly explain what's going on; there are two categories of rules I've disabled:
1. rules that were temporary disables; they were frequent enough that I couldn't manually resolve them, but should be simple. **I plan on opening issues to re-enable each of these rules**, just after this PR
- `declaration-block-no-redundant-longhand-properties`: this is just tedious and error-prone
- `no-descending-specificity`: this one is tricky since it could have impacts on the cascade (though that seems unlikely)
- `scss/no-global-function-names`: I think we need to [import map and then use `map.get`](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64210390/sass-map-get-doesnt-work-map-get-does-what-gives), but I'll leave this as out of scope for now
2. rules that are long-term disables; due to the SASS-based nature of our theme, I think we'll keep these in limbo
- `alpha-value-notation` causes problems with SASS using the `modern` syntax - literals like `50%` are not properly interpolated, and they cause formatting issues on the site
- `color-function-notation` also causes problems with SASS, but in this case the `modern` syntax breaks SASS compilation; we're not alone (see this [SO post](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71805735/error-function-rgb-is-missing-argument-green-in-sass)).
In addition, we have many inline `stylelint-disable` comments. I'd open a separate issue to audit them, especially since I think some disables are unnecessary.
### on Primer
**note: there hasn't been much other discussion, so I'm going to remove primer's stylelint config.**
If I do add `@primer/stylelint-config`, I get *a ton* of errors about now using `@primer`'s in-built SCSS variables. I imagine that we probably won't want to use these presets (though I could be wrong). In that case, I think we could either:
1. disable all of those rules
4. not use `@primer/stylelint-config`, since we're not actually using primer, and shift back to the standard SCSS config provided by Stylelint
~~Any thoughts here? I also don't have the original context as to why we do use the primer rules, perhaps @pmarsceill can chime in?~~
