Error: "Unable to start webhint."

Environment (please complete the following information):

• OS (e.g., Windows 10): Windows 11
• Extension version (e.g., 1.2.3):

Describe the bug:

Additional context: Snippet from output:

Found hint at c:\Users\raweil\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\globalStorage\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools\node_modules\hint\dist\src\lib\index.js
(node:13460) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: AnalyzerError: Connector local only works with local files or directories
    at Analyzer.analyze (c:\Users\raweil\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\globalStorage\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools\node_modules\hint\dist\src\lib\analyzer.js:151:23)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)
    at async c:\Users\raweil\.vscode\extensions\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools-1.4.5\node_modules\vscode-webhint\dist\src\server.js:1:1204
    at async t.Analyzer.validateTextDocument (c:\Users\raweil\.vscode\extensions\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools-1.4.5\node_modules\vscode-webhint\dist\src\server.js:1:1129)
    at async t.Analyzer.validateTextDocument (c:\Users\raweil\.vscode\extensions\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools-1.4.5\node_modules\vscode-webhint\dist\src\server.js:1:1505)
    at async t.Analyzer.validateTextDocument (c:\Users\raweil\.vscode\extensions\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools-1.4.5\node_modules\vscode-webhint\dist\src\server.js:1:1505)
    at async t.Analyzer.validateTextDocument (c:\Users\raweil\.vscode\extensions\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools-1.4.5\node_modules\vscode-webhint\dist\src\server.js:1:1505)
    at async t.Analyzer.validateTextDocument (c:\Users\raweil\.vscode\extensions\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools-1.4.5\node_modules\vscode-webhint\dist\src\server.js:1:1505)
    at async t.Analyzer.validateTextDocument (c:\Users\raweil\.vscode\extensions\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools-1.4.5\node_modules\vscode-webhint\dist\src\server.js:1:1505)
    at async t.Analyzer.validateTextDocument (c:\Users\raweil\.vscode\extensions\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools-1.4.5\node_modules\vscode-webhint\dist\src\server.js:1:1505)
(Use `Code --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(node:13460) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 9)
(node:13460) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.
(node:13460) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: AnalyzerError: Connector local only works with local files or directories
    at Analyzer.analyze (c:\Users\raweil\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\globalStorage\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools\node_modules\hint\dist\src\lib\analyzer.js:151:23)
    at async c:\Users\raweil\.vscode\extensions\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools-1.4.5\node_modules\vscode-webhint\dist\src\server.js:1:1204
    at async t.Analyzer.validateTextDocument (c:\Users\raweil\.vscode\extensions\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools-1.4.5\node_modules\vscode-webhint\dist\src\server.js:1:1129)
    at async c:\Users\raweil\.vscode\extensions\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools-1.4.5\node_modules\vscode-webhint\dist\src\server.js:1:139525
(node:13460) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 11)
(node:13460) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: AnalyzerError: Connector local only works with local files or directories
    at Analyzer.analyze (c:\Users\raweil\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\globalStorage\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools\node_modules\hint\dist\src\lib\analyzer.js:151:23)
    at async c:\Users\raweil\.vscode\extensions\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools-1.4.5\node_modules\vscode-webhint\dist\src\server.js:1:1204
    at async t.Analyzer.validateTextDocument (c:\Users\raweil\.vscode\extensions\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools-1.4.5\node_modules\vscode-webhint\dist\src\server.js:1:1129)
    at async c:\Users\raweil\.vscode\extensions\ms-edgedevtools.vscode-edge-devtools-1.4.5\node_modules\vscode-webhint\dist\src\server.js:1:139525

[antross]

Thanks @GunnerGuyven, that’s very helpful!

I was able to repro the problem using a json file. It appears the extension is getting invoked when opening a json file to analyze a collection of vscode-internal files for some reason:

• vscode://schemas/vscode-extensions
• vscode://schemas/settings/configurationDefaults
• vscode://schemas/settings/resourceLanguage
• …

I’m not yet certain if this is intentional or not on VS Code’s part (feels like a variation of https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-languageserver-node/issues/506), but we should be able to ignore such URLs easily enough at the extension level before passing them into webhint.

[jsma]

Is there a way to manually get webhint updated in VS Code or do we have to wait for an official Edge Tools extension release to 1.4.7? This extension has been broken for me since the VS Code March 2022 auto-update yesterday and is also broken in the Insider’s Edition, I had not encountered this error previously.