diff --git a/src/scanners/javascript.js b/src/scanners/javascript.js
index af31cb9e211..46959ff2fa0 100644
--- a/src/scanners/javascript.js
+++ b/src/scanners/javascript.js
@@ -62,30 +62,39 @@ export default class JavaScriptScanner {
     const root =
       typeof appRoot !== 'undefined' ? appRoot : path.join(__dirname, '..');
     const eslintConfig = {
-      envs: ['es6', 'webextensions', 'browser'],
-      // It's the default but also shouldn't change since we're using
-      // espree to parse javascript files below manually to figure out
-      // if they're modules or not
-      parser: 'espree',
-      parserOptions: {
-        ecmaVersion: ECMA_VERSION,
-        sourceType: this.sourceType,
-      },
-      rules,
-      resolvePluginsRelativeTo: root,
+      resolvePluginsRelativeTo: path.resolve(root),
       // The default value for `rulePaths` is configured so that it finds the
       // files exported by webpack when this project is built.
       rulePaths: _rulePaths || [path.join(root, 'dist', 'rules', 'javascript')],
-      plugins: ['no-unsanitized'],
       allowInlineConfig: false,
 
       // Avoid loading the addons-linter .eslintrc file
       useEslintrc: false,
 
       baseConfig: {
-        // Scan files in `bower_components/`, `node_modules/` as well as
-        // dotfiles. See: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/issues/1288
-        ignorePatterns: ['!bower_components/*', '!node_modules/*', '!.*'],
+        env: {
+          browser: true,
+          es6: true,
+          webextensions: true,
+        },
+
+        // It's the default but also shouldn't change since we're using
+        // espree to parse javascript files below manually to figure out
+        // if they're modules or not
+        parser: 'espree',
+        parserOptions: {
+          ecmaVersion: ECMA_VERSION,
+          sourceType: this.sourceType,
+        },
+
+        rules,
+        plugins: ['no-unsanitized'],
+
+        // Scan files in `node_modules/` as well as dotfiles. As of ESLInt 7.0,
+        // bower files are scanned.
+        // See: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/issues/1288
+        // See: https://eslint.org/docs/user-guide/migrating-to-7.0.0#default-ignore-patterns-have-changed
+        ignorePatterns: ['!node_modules/*', '!.*'],
         settings: {
           addonMetadata: this.options.addonMetadata,
           existingFiles: this.options.existingFiles,
@@ -93,8 +102,11 @@ export default class JavaScriptScanner {
       },
     };
 
-    const cli = new _ESLint.CLIEngine(eslintConfig);
-    const { results } = cli.executeOnText(this.code, this.filename, true);
+    const cli = new _ESLint.ESLint(eslintConfig);
+    const results = await cli.lintText(this.code, {
+      filePath: this.filename,
+      warnIgnored: true,
+    });
 
     // eslint prepends the filename with the current working directory,
     // strip that out.
diff --git a/tests/unit/scanners/test.javascript.js b/tests/unit/scanners/test.javascript.js
index 5cb0b7a6821..1122b1b93c1 100644
--- a/tests/unit/scanners/test.javascript.js
+++ b/tests/unit/scanners/test.javascript.js
@@ -225,32 +225,23 @@ describe('JavaScript Scanner', () => {
   });
 
   it('should reject on missing message code', async () => {
-    const FakeCLIEngine = () => {};
-    FakeCLIEngine.prototype = {
-      constructor() {},
-      executeOnText: () => {
-        return {
-          results: [
-            {
-              filePath: 'badcode.js',
-              messages: [
-                {
-                  fatal: false,
-                },
-              ],
-            },
-          ],
-        };
-      },
-      linter: {
-        defineRule: () => {
-          // no-op
-        },
-      },
-    };
+    class FakeESLintClass {
+      async lintText() {
+        return Promise.resolve([
+          {
+            filePath: 'badcode.js',
+            messages: [
+              {
+                fatal: false,
+              },
+            ],
+          },
+        ]);
+      }
+    }
 
     const FakeESLint = {
-      CLIEngine: FakeCLIEngine,
+      ESLint: FakeESLintClass,
     };
 
     const jsScanner = new JavaScriptScanner('whatever', 'badcode.js');