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typescript/no-useless-empty-export Correctness

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What it does

Disallow empty exports that don't change anything in a module file.

Why is this bad?

An empty export {} statement is sometimes useful in TypeScript code to turn a file that would otherwise be a script file into a module file. Per the TypeScript Handbook Modules page:

In TypeScript, just as in ECMAScript 2015, any file containing a top-level import or export is considered a module. Conversely, a file without any top-level import or export declarations is treated as a script whose contents are available in the global scope (and therefore to modules as well).

However, an export {} statement does nothing if there are any other top-level import or export statements in a file.

This rule reports an export {} that doesn't do anything in a file already using ES modules.

Example

Examples of incorrect code for this rule:

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export const value = "Hello, world!";
export {};

Examples of correct code for this rule:

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export const value = "Hello, world!";

References

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