eslint-plugin-no-credentials

An ESlint plugin checking for any hardcoded credentials like a password or a token.

This library detects credentials hardcoded in a JS string (no matter whether it's defined with apostrophes, quotation marks or it's a template string) or a JS comment.

However, it doesn't check non-JS files like JSON or txt.

The percentage of found hardcoded credentials depends on applied params which should be chosen according to the code in a given project.

I recommend using additionally a spellchecking tool like that as the credentials are usually strings not matching any word found in a dictionary.

how to install?

yarn add --dev eslint-plugin-no-credentials

or

npm i --save-dev eslint-plugin-no-credentials

how to use?

In your .eslintrc file add "no-credentials" to the plugins section:

  "plugins": [
    "no-credentials"
  ],

and the no-credentials/no-credentials rule with the chosen params to that file:

    "no-credentials/no-credentials": [
      "error",
      {
        delimiters: [" ", "/", "-", "_", "."],
        maximumEntropy: 8,
        minimumWordLength: 5,
        shouldSplitCamelCase: true,
      },
    ],

Possible params:

• delimiters (default [' ']): delimiters used to split each string into words so for each word, the entropy is calculated separately
• minimumNumberOfWords (default 0): if the number of words in a given string is less than this param, the entire string is treated as one word
• minimumWordLength (default 1): if a given word is shorter than this param, it's concatenated to the next word
• maximumEntropy (default 5): maximum tolerated entropy for each word
• shouldSplitCamelCase (default false): whether a camelCase string should be split into separate words

In order to have a better understanding, how these params work, you can read the tests.