PhpStorm: How to disable PHPCS for Javascript

Question

PHPCS is checking my JS files on PhpStorm,

I need to disable this feature

I added this line in the file phpcs.xml.dist but no luck

<exclude-pattern>*\.(inc|css|js)</exclude-pattern>

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Answer 1

Update for newest PhpStorm (2022.3).

The location to change the checked files is now under File | Settings | PHP | Quality Tools and select PHP_CodeSniffer or search for PHP_CodeSniffer

There is not checkbox anymore, it is now a text input with file extensions separated by commas. In the screenshot I removed js and css extensions which are there by default.

Anastasio

Answer 2

Finally found it, I had to disable some extensions in PhpStorm config
File | Settings | Editor | Inspections > PHP Code Sniffer Validation
Or search:
PHP Code Sniffer Validation
or
PHP_CodeSniffer validation

There is a related bug though
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-44308

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I found that setting too, but PHPCS still inspects my .js files. Did you do anything else? Do you still have that exclude line in your phpcs.xml.dist? – Damondamour

I didn't do any additional steps, the line has no effect as far as my tests go. Maybe it's a bug on your phpstorm version. I have 2018.3.2 currently – Cheat

I encountered the same issue on another machine but I solved it by updating phpcs. sudo composer global require "squizlabs/php_codesniffer=*" – Cheat