Rule Proposal: Error for using this in stateless function

[nickstanish]

Would be great to catch these errors faster especially when converting classes to stateless functions

[Jessidhia]

Wouldn't no-invalid-this catch this?

[ljharb]

That's a good point - that's a core rule that prevents use of this in a standalone function. It still might be useful to have one specifically for SFCs, though.

[nickstanish]

That rule allows this if the function looks like a constructor, and the criteria for that is the name is capitalized or is actually a class constructor. Since SFCs begin with capital letter then that rule would allow it.

One possible solution is to add-on to that rule by determining if the function is a SFC.
The criteria for that could be something similar to:

• returns jsx or React.createElement/cloneElement
• has 1 function arg
• sets propTypes/defaultProps

[alexzherdev]

Added in #1509.