Visual Studio Code Extension - npm installation failed becuase of package dependency?

Question

I'm trying to write a small extention for Visual Studio Code but it fails right at the beginning.

I installed yo, as intended

npm install -g yo generator-code

however, now when I'm trying to start everything up, I get errors.

I created a project using yo code and following the generator. I tried Extension Typescript and Javascript, both failed.

the settings used:

• initialize a git repository: yes
• package manager: npm

Running npm install for you to install the required dependencies. If this fails, try running the command yourself.

The auto installation failed, running npm install however caused the same error:

npm WARN registry Unexpected warning for https://registry.npmjs.org/: Miscellaneous Warning EPROTO: request to https://registry.npmjs.org/mocha failed, reason: write EPROTO 10300:error:14094417:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert illegal parameter:c:\\ws\\deps\\openssl\\openssl\\ssl\\record\\rec_layer_s3.c:1407:SSL alert number 47\n
npm WARN registry Using stale data from https://registry.npmjs.org/ due to a request error during revalidation.
npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for @types/vscode@^1.43.0.
npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.
npm ERR! notarget
npm ERR! notarget It was specified as a dependency of 'smartfilesnfolders'
npm ERR! notarget

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\lechn\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-03-10T12_50_32_409Z-debug.log

full log: https://gist.github.com/lechnerio/e1356b2edb48cbdedf40fd1570267bb7

thankful for any hints and tips. npm and vscode are up to date.

Answer 1

I've got the same error a moment ago. I solved it by changing @types/vscode version to ^1.42.0 in package.json.