prefer-string-starts-ends-with

📝 Prefer String#startsWith() & String#endsWith() over RegExp#test().

💼 This rule is enabled in the following configs: ✅ recommended, ☑️ unopinionated.

🔧💡 This rule is automatically fixable by the --fix CLI option and manually fixable by editor suggestions.

Prefer String#startsWith() and String#endsWith() over using a regex with /^foo/ or /foo$/.

This rule is fixable, unless the matching object is known not a string.

Examples

// ❌
const foo = /^bar/.test(baz);

// ✅
const foo = baz.startsWith('bar');

// ❌
const foo = /bar$/.test(baz);

// ✅
const foo = baz.endsWith('bar');

// ✅
const foo = /^bar/i.test(baz);