import/no-unresolved doesn't support package.json exports field

[polarstoat]

Using the base Airbnb config with ESLint, I'm getting false positives for packages that definitely are installed and working from the import/no-unresolved rule:

  3:18  error    Unable to resolve path to module 'conf'  import/no-unresolved

This seems to occur with packages whose package.json file has an exports field but no main field (of which sindresorhus/conf is an example).

import-js/eslint-plugin-import#1810 discusses support for this, but appears to be blocked by browserify/resolve#224.

As currently the rule does not work correctly with packages that only use an exports perhaps it should be turned off? Node has supported exports as an alternative to main as a package entry point for many years now, but until this is fixed upstream with eslint-plugin-import I think it might be best to avoid using it.

[ljharb]

import-js/eslint-plugin-import#1810 discusses support for this, but appears to be blocked by browserify/resolve#224.

This is correct.

Packages that fail to provide back compat with a main generally should be avoided, and since they’re in the extreme minority, you can put them in import/ignore for now. The rule remains incredibly valuable.