diff --git a/.eslintignore b/.eslintignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..54f0bce7b74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.eslintignore
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+**/vs/nls.build.js
+**/vs/nls.js
+**/vs/css.build.js
+**/vs/css.js
+**/vs/loader.js
+**/promise-polyfill/**
+**/insane/**
+**/marked/**
+**/test/**/*.js
+**/node_modules/**
+**/vscode-api-tests/testWorkspace/**
+**/extensions/**/out/**
+**/extensions/**/build/**
diff --git a/.eslintrc.json b/.eslintrc.json
index 29efa7cbbc2..66628b052d9 100644
--- a/.eslintrc.json
+++ b/.eslintrc.json
@@ -1,20 +1,54 @@
 {
-	"root": true,
-	"env": {
-		"node": true,
-		"es6": true
-	},
-	"rules": {
-		"no-console": 0,
-		"no-cond-assign": 0,
-		"no-unused-vars": 1,
-		"no-extra-semi": "warn",
-		"semi": "warn"
-	},
-	"extends": "eslint:recommended",
-	"parserOptions": {
-		"ecmaFeatures": {
-			"experimentalObjectRestSpread": true
-		}
-	}
+    "root": true,
+    "parser": "@typescript-eslint/parser",
+    "parserOptions": {
+        "ecmaVersion": 6,
+        "sourceType": "module"
+    },
+    "plugins": [
+        "code-oss-eslint",
+        "@typescript-eslint"
+    ],
+    "rules": {
+        "no-extra-semi": "off",
+        "no-unused-vars": "off",
+        "eqeqeq": "warn",
+        "semi": "off",
+        "@typescript-eslint/semi": "warn",
+        "no-duplicate-imports": "warn",
+        "code-oss-eslint/layering": [
+            "warn",
+            {
+                "common": [],
+                "node": [
+                    "common"
+                ],
+                "browser": [
+                    "common"
+                ],
+                "electron-main": [
+                    "common",
+                    "node"
+                ],
+                "electron-browser": [
+                    "common",
+                    "browser",
+                    "node"
+                ]
+            }
+        ],
+        "@typescript-eslint/class-name-casing": "warn",
+        "constructor-super": "warn",
+        "curly": "warn",
+        "no-caller": "warn",
+        "no-debugger": "warn",
+        "no-duplicate-case": "warn",
+        "no-eval": "warn",
+        "no-new-wrappers": "warn",
+        "no-sparse-arrays": "warn",
+        "no-throw-literal": "warn",
+        "no-unsafe-finally": "warn",
+        "no-unused-labels": "warn",
+        "no-var": "warn"
+    }
 }
diff --git a/build/gulpfile.hygiene.js b/build/gulpfile.hygiene.js
index afde823d0b6..3185e325d5c 100644
--- a/build/gulpfile.hygiene.js
+++ b/build/gulpfile.hygiene.js
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ const copyrightHeaderLines = [
 gulp.task('eslint', () => {
 	return vfs.src(all, { base: '.', follow: true, allowEmpty: true })
 		.pipe(filter(eslintFilter))
-		.pipe(gulpeslint('src/.eslintrc'))
+		.pipe(gulpeslint('.eslintrc.json'))
 		.pipe(gulpeslint.formatEach('compact'))
 		.pipe(gulpeslint.failAfterError());
 });
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ function checkPackageJSON(actualPath) {
 
 const checkPackageJSONTask = task.define('check-package-json', () => {
 	return gulp.src('package.json')
-		.pipe(es.through(function() {
+		.pipe(es.through(function () {
 			checkPackageJSON.call(this, 'remote/package.json');
 			checkPackageJSON.call(this, 'remote/web/package.json');
 		}));
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ function hygiene(some) {
 
 	const javascript = result
 		.pipe(filter(eslintFilter))
-		.pipe(gulpeslint('src/.eslintrc'))
+		.pipe(gulpeslint('.eslintrc.json'))
 		.pipe(gulpeslint.formatEach('compact'))
 		.pipe(gulpeslint.failAfterError());
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d97cbae1f74..9f91624475f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
     "strict-function-types-watch": "tsc --watch -p src/tsconfig.json --noEmit --strictFunctionTypes",
     "update-distro": "node build/npm/update-distro.js",
     "web": "node scripts/code-web.js",
-    "eslint": "eslint -c ./src/.eslintrc.json ./src/vs --ext .ts --ext .js"
+    "eslint": "eslint -c .eslintrc.json --ext .ts --ext .js ./src/vs ./extensions"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "applicationinsights": "1.0.8",
diff --git a/src/.eslintrc b/src/.eslintrc
deleted file mode 100644
index c25b0d558c2..00000000000
--- a/src/.eslintrc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-{
-	"parserOptions": {
-		"ecmaVersion": 6
-	},
-	"env": {
-		"node": true,
-		"es6": true,
-		"browser": true,
-		"amd": true
-	},
-	"rules": {
-		"no-console": 0,
-		"no-cond-assign": 0,
-		"no-unused-vars": "error",
-		"no-extra-semi": "error",
-		"semi": "error",
-		"no-inner-declarations": 0
-	}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/.eslintrc.json b/src/.eslintrc.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 879564055ed..00000000000
--- a/src/.eslintrc.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "$schema": "http://json.schemastore.org/eslintrc",
-    "root": true,
-    "ignorePatterns": [
-        "**/vs/nls.build.js",
-        "**/vs/nls.js",
-        "**/vs/css.build.js",
-        "**/vs/css.js",
-        "**/vs/loader.js",
-        "**/promise-polyfill/**",
-        "**/insane/**",
-        "**/marked/**",
-        "**/test/**/*.js"
-    ],
-    "parser": "@typescript-eslint/parser",
-    "parserOptions": {
-        "project": "src/tsconfig.json",
-        "sourceType": "module"
-    },
-    "plugins": [
-        "code-oss-eslint",
-        "@typescript-eslint"
-    ],
-    "rules": {
-        "no-extra-semi": "off",
-        "no-unused-vars": "off",
-        "semi": "warn",
-        "eqeqeq": "warn",
-        "no-duplicate-imports": "warn",
-        "code-oss-eslint/layering": [
-            "warn",
-            {
-                "common": [],
-                "node": [
-                    "common"
-                ],
-                "browser": [
-                    "common"
-                ],
-                "electron-main": [
-                    "common",
-                    "node"
-                ],
-                "electron-browser": [
-                    "common",
-                    "browser",
-                    "node"
-                ]
-            }
-        ],
-        "@typescript-eslint/class-name-casing": "warn",
-        "@typescript-eslint/no-for-in-array": "warn",
-        "@typescript-eslint/semi": [
-            "warn",
-            "always"
-        ],
-        "constructor-super": "warn",
-        "curly": "warn",
-        "no-caller": "warn",
-        "no-debugger": "warn",
-        "no-duplicate-case": "warn",
-        "no-eval": "warn",
-        "no-new-wrappers": "warn",
-        "no-sparse-arrays": "warn",
-        "no-throw-literal": "warn",
-        "no-unsafe-finally": "warn",
-        "no-unused-labels": "warn",
-        "no-var": "warn"
-    }
-}