🐛 VSCode plugin, couldn't create connection to server

[rajinder-yadav]

Environment information

I keep getting both the following error shown in the image in the release version with vscode insider.

What happened?

1. Just using VSCode insider

Expected result

should not crash or error out

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow Biome's Code of Conduct

[rajinder-yadav]

Seeing the following error in vscode insider.

[rajinder-yadav]

This seems to show up more easily in project without a biome.json config, but not sure having it stop the problem. It definitely should not do it projects that are not TS or JS.

[github-actions]

Hello @rajinder-yadav, please provide a minimal reproduction. You can use one of the following options:

• Provide a link to our playground, if it's applicable.
• Provide a link to GitHub repository. To easily create a reproduction, you can use our interactive CLI via npm create @biomejs/biome-reproduction

Issues marked with S-Needs repro will be closed if they have no activity within 3 days.

[arendjr]

To help you with the reproduction, it could be that Biome is crashing while indexing the project. If that's the case, you can probably reproduce it simply by running biome check in the directory you're trying to open. Can you try this, and report the error messages and the files it is crashing on?

[rajinder-yadav]

running "biome check" seems to run fine on a simple TS file, no crashing.

However, I opened vscode in an empty directory, re-installed the pluging and it instantly crashed showing both the errors I reported.

This is happening on Linux openSUSE Tumbleweed and vscode-insider.

[arendjr]

That's unfortunate. Unfortunately, this is not something that's easily reproducible by us. Maybe it's your use of the insider builds? Maybe it's something in your setup. Unless you can create a setup that consistently shows the issue in a way that's reproducible by others, we can't help you.

[rajinder-yadav]

Is there any logs I can send to help in your investigation?
I stopped using the plugin since it doesn't work.
My guess is the plugin is looking in the wrong place for the things it needs and bails.

[ematipico]

You can look for logs here: https://biomejs.dev/guides/editors/create-a-extension/#daemon-logs

[rajinder-yadav]

It seems like the vscode plugin for biome is looking in the wrong directory, according to this error:

Error: Cannot find module '/home/yadav/.config/Code - Insiders/User/globalStorage/biomejs.biome/tmp-bin/global/5/.pnpm/@biomejs+biome@1.9.4/node_modules/@biomejs/biome/bin/biome'
    at Function._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1225:15)
    at Function._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1055:27)
    at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:322:14)
    at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:220:24)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:170:5)
    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:36:49 {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: []
}

Node.js v22.14.0

2025-05-02 01:06:05.127 [info] [Error - 1:06:05 AM] Biome language server closed
2025-05-02 01:06:05.127 [info] [Error - 1:06:05 AM] biome client: couldn't create connection to server.
2025-05-02 01:06:05.127 [info]   Message: Pending response rejected since connection got disposed
  Code: -32097 

While the actual location for this file is:

/home/yadav/.config/Code - Insiders/User/globalStorage/biomejs.biome/tmp-bin//biome-1.9.4

[nhedger]

This issue is most likely happening because you installed biome globally with pnpm, which isn’t supported.

Try uninstalling biome globally from pnpm and either add biome to your project’s dependencies or install it globally with one of the supported methods.

You’ll also have to delete the following folder:

/home/yadav/.config/Code - Insiders/User/globalStorage/biomejs.biome/tmp-bin

And reload VS Code afterwards