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For many years, @typescript-eslint/ban-types was one of the more prominent rules in typescript-eslint. It served three purposes:

• It banned usage of the unsafe "empty object" {} type
• It banned uses of dangerous or misleading built-in types: Function, Number, and so on
• It also allowed users to provide additional types to ban

Those are all great areas for linting! However, @typescript-eslint/ban-types suffered from several key design issues:

• By targeting all three areas of banning, it was hard to configure to only what a project needs
• It was overly strict on banning {}, to the point of confusing and inconveniencing users
• It was limited in what auto-fixes and edge cases it could handle for its default banned types

This post will explain how @typescript-eslint/ban-types came to be, its benefits and drawbacks, and the new rules that better handle its targeted functionality.