eslint: error Parsing error: The keyword 'const' is reserved

Question

I am getting this error from ESLint:

error  Parsing error: The keyword \'const\' is reserved

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Answer 1

If using Visual Code one option is to add this to the settings.json file:

"eslint.options": {
    "useEslintrc": false,
    "parserOptions": {
        "ecmaVersion": 2017
    },
    "env": {
        "es6": true
    }
}