noahdarveau/namespace eslint plugin

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Description

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Main changes in the PR:

1. Added an eslint plugin rule that will throw an error whenever a namespace is used in the codebase. The error message informs the developer that namespaces should not be used as they are not treeshakable and modules should be used instead. It also instructs the developer that if it is ABSULUTELY necessary to use a namespace, they can ignore the eslint rule and add a comment explaining why a namespace is necessary to in this situation.

Validation

Validation performed:

1. Manually tested the functionality of the plugin.

[AE-MS]

I know there weren't a lot of items before you got here but please consider alphabetizing this and the plugins list above. #Closed

[AE-MS]

Noah

lol

[AE-MS]

Does this rule definition need to have a fix section in the create part in order to make it fixable? Is this a rule we really want to enable auto-fixing on? #Closed

[AE-MS]

🕐

[AE-MS]