Disable Unnecessary escape character: \/ no-useless-escape

Question

I have this regex of mine that will check the string if it contains link or url (i.e. https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-useless-escape). Using this regex /(\\b

Answer 1

\ gives error from below code in my NodeJS typescript project, code editor is VS Code -

Code -

if (!(/^[\-0-9a-zA-Z\.\+_]+@[\-0-9a-zA-Z\.\+_]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$/).test(String(req.body.email))) { ... }

Error -

Unnecessary escape character: \+. (eslintno-useless-escape)

Solution -

//eslint-disable-next-line

Final code -

//eslint-disable-next-line
if (!(/^[\-0-9a-zA-Z\.\+_]+@[\-0-9a-zA-Z\.\+_]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$/).test(String(req.body.email))) { ... }