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npm ERR! Invalid name: "playwright@latest" when running "Install Playwright" from VSCode Command

See original GitHub issue

I wanted to try Playwright out. Haven’t previously had it installed anywhere. Created a new folder for it in VSCode and installed the Playwright Extension v0.2.8

Opened up the command palette and ran “Test: Install Playwright” Selected all browsers and included GitHub actions too.

Terminal output showing error is as follows

C:\...\MS Playwright Testing Utility> npm init --yes playwright@latest -- --quiet --browser=chromium --browser=firefox --browser=webkit --gha
npx: installed 1 in 1.798s
Getting started with writing end-to-end tests with Playwright:
Initializing project in 'playwright@latest'
Initializing NPM project (npm init -y)…    
npm ERR! Invalid name: "playwright@latest"

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\bwesl\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2022-08-17T03_29_03_729Z-debug.log
{ Error: Command failed: npm init -y
    at checkExecSyncError (child_process.js:611:11)
    at execSync (child_process.js:648:13)
    at executeCommands (C:\Users\bwesl\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_npx\23664\node_modules\create-playwright\lib\index.js:4519:39)
    at Generator.run (C:\Users\bwesl\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_npx\23664\node_modules\create-playwright\lib\index.js:4592:5)   
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:745:11)
    at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:279:19)
    at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:752:3)
  status: 1,
  signal: null,
  output: [ null, null, null ],
  pid: 9228,
  stdout: null,
  stderr: null }