microsoft / microsoft/vscode-generator-code
"No matching version found for @types/vscode@^1.113.0."
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Description
When I try to create an extension with yo code, it fails to npm install at the end:
✔ What type of extension do you want to create? New Extension (TypeScript)
✔ What's the name of your extension? shutdown_repro
✔ What's the identifier of your extension? shutdown-repro
✔ What's the description of your extension?
✔ Initialize a git repository? No
✔ Which bundler to use? unbundled
✔ Which package manager to use? npm
Writing in D:\Dev\Temp Projects\shutdown-repro...
create shutdown-repro\.vscode\extensions.json
create shutdown-repro\.vscode\launch.json
create shutdown-repro\.vscode\settings.json
create shutdown-repro\.vscode\tasks.json
create shutdown-repro\package.json
create shutdown-repro\tsconfig.json
create shutdown-repro\.vscodeignore
create shutdown-repro\vsc-extension-quickstart.md
create shutdown-repro\README.md
create shutdown-repro\CHANGELOG.md
create shutdown-repro\src\extension.ts
create shutdown-repro\src\test\extension.test.ts
create shutdown-repro\.vscode-test.mjs
create shutdown-repro\.eslintrc.json
Changes to package.json were detected.
Running npm install for you to install the required dependencies.
npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for @types/vscode@^1.113.0.
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! A complete log of this run can be found in: C:\Users\danny\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2026-03-30T15_16_23_647Z-debug-0.log
Error code
Command failed with exit code 1: npm install
The last version of this package on npm seems to be 1.110.0 but it seems to be trying to get 1.113.0.
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Research direction
Start by inspecting the generated package.json and the template that supplies its @types/vscode dependency, then reproduce the failure with npm install. Trace why the generated project requests an unavailable version, and verify that a newly generated TypeScript extension installs successfully with npm.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, typescript
- Domain
- cli, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 56/100