Hi there!

I'd like to deprecate eslint-plugin-standard. We currently have four rules, three of which are no longer used by us since ESLint core now has suitable alternatives built-in.

The fourth rule is quite useful.

no-callback-literal - Ensures the Node.js error-first callback pattern is followed. Specifically, when a function is named cb or callback, then it must be called with undefined, null or an Error object as the first function argument.

// okay
cb(undefined)
cb(null, 5)
callback(new Error('some error'))
callback(someVariable)

// error
cb('this is an error string')
cb({ a: 1 })
callback(0)

We have code and tests for the implementation (https://github.com/standard/eslint-plugin-standard/blob/master/rules/no-callback-literal.js).

Ideally, we'd be able to just deprecate eslint-plugin-standard since we're currently maintaining a whole ESLint plugin just for a single rule.

So, my question is – would eslint-plugin-node like to adopt this rule? It seems like a good fit. Let me know what you think!