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ratulalahy
ratulalahy

Reputation: 480

Visual Studio Code Error - Failed to load jshint library

Every time Visual Studio Code started or loaded it shows an error message: "Failed to load jshint library. Please install jshint in your workspace folder using 'npm install jshint' or globally using 'npm install -g jshint' and then press Retry". Is there any solution available?

Upvotes: 20

Views: 31761

Answers (6)

Sahadat Riad
Sahadat Riad

Reputation: 21

Open cmdr or the Git bash terminal and enter npm install -g jshint, then exit VS code and re-open it.

Upvotes: 2

Vaibhav Zope
Vaibhav Zope

Reputation: 11

Use sudo before npm install jshint

For the current workspace sudo npm install jshint or

For all your workspaces sudo npm install -g jshint

Using sudo with a command in LINUX/UNIX generally gives you the permissions to root level. The root user has permission to access, modify or delete almost any file on your computer. Normal user accounts can access, modify or delete fewer files. This restrictions on normal user accounts are to protect your computer from unauthorized and harmful programs or users.

Thus, running the installation command with sudo gives you the permissions of the superuser, and allows you to modify files that your normal user doesn't have permission to modify.

Upvotes: 1

Vaishali Venkatesan
Vaishali Venkatesan

Reputation: 785

Try uninstalling using "npm uninstall" and follow the link - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dbaeumer.jshint for reinstalling.

Upvotes: 0

Abdollah
Abdollah

Reputation: 5177

I had this problem while I had installed jshint using yarn globally (yarn global add jshint). I added the following properties to settings.json for User to solve the problem:

"jshint.packageManager": "yarn",
"jshint.nodePath": "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/"

The first property i.e. jshint.packageManager specifies that yarn is used to manage node packages instead of npm. The second one i.e. jshint.nodePath specifies the path of jshint installation. To check if jshint is loaded successfully, I opened Command pallet ( CTRL + 3) and ran command JSHint: Show output which showed this message in the output: 

jshint library loaded from /usr/local/lib/node_modules/jshint/src/jshint.js

It indicated that the problem was resolved. Afterwards, the jshint messages appeared in *.js files.

Upvotes: 11

Rakesh Chandra
Rakesh Chandra

Reputation: 31

For applying the changes to Global scope, and not only to a specific Workspace, use the following command in terminal:-

npm install -g jshint

For a particular workspace, use the following command in terminal:-

npm install jshint

Upvotes: 1

Wade Anderson
Wade Anderson

Reputation: 2519

You'll need to follow the prompt and install jshint.

For just the workspace npm install jshint

or

For all your workspaces npm install -g jshint

Upvotes: 31

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