VSCode error: createRequire is not a function

[jiroler]

Hello! I can not use typescript-eslint with VSCode, I get error

ESLint: Failed to load plugin '@typescript-eslint' declared in '.eslintrc.js': createRequire is not a function Referenced from: {projectPath}/.eslintrc.js. Please see the 'ESLint' output channel for details.

.eslint.js

module.exports = {
    root: true,
    parser: '@typescript-eslint/parser',
    plugins: [
        '@typescript-eslint',
    ],
    extends: [
        'eslint:recommended',
        'plugin:@typescript-eslint/eslint-recommended',
        'plugin:@typescript-eslint/recommended',
    ]
}

Workspace Settings

{
    "eslint.enable": true,
    "eslint.workingDirectories": [
        {"mode": "auto"}
    ],
     "eslint.validate": ["typescript", "typescriptreact"]
}

Actual Result (Error in ESLint output)

[Error - 10:36:07 AM] ESLint stack trace:
[Error - 10:36:07 AM] TypeError: Failed to load plugin '@typescript-eslint' declared in '.eslintrc.js': createRequire is not a function
Referenced from: {projectPath}/.eslintrc.js
    at Object.resolve ({projectPath}/node_modules/eslint/lib/shared/relative-module-resolver.js:28:20)
    at ConfigArrayFactory._loadPlugin ({projectPath}/node_modules/eslint/lib/cli-engine/config-array-factory.js:992:39)
    at ConfigArrayFactory._loadExtendedPluginConfig ({projectPath}/node_modules/eslint/lib/cli-engine/config-array-factory.js:812:29)
    at ConfigArrayFactory._loadExtends ({projectPath}/node_modules/eslint/lib/cli-engine/config-array-factory.js:761:29)
    at ConfigArrayFactory._normalizeObjectConfigDataBody ({projectPath}/node_modules/eslint/lib/cli-engine/config-array-factory.js:702:25)
    at _normalizeObjectConfigDataBody.next (<anonymous>)
    at ConfigArrayFactory._normalizeObjectConfigData ({projectPath}/node_modules/eslint/lib/cli-engine/config-array-factory.js:647:20)
    at _normalizeObjectConfigData.next (<anonymous>)
    at ConfigArrayFactory.loadInDirectory ({projectPath}/node_modules/eslint/lib/cli-engine/config-array-factory.js:495:28)
    at CascadingConfigArrayFactory._loadConfigInAncestors ({projectPath}/node_modules/eslint/lib/cli-engine/cascading-config-array-factory.js:355:46)

Additional Info

Command by shell works successfull

"scripts": {
    "eslint": "eslint . --ext .ts"
  }

Versions

package	version
@typescript-eslint/parser	2.33.0
@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin	2.33.0
TypeScript	3.9.2
ESLint	7.0.0
node	12.13.1
npm	6.9.0

Please, help me. Thank you

[jiroler]

I am sorry. It is my local problem. I used old version of VSCode. Updating VSCode to latest version is solved problem.

[jorgedavila25]

I'm seeing this issue in GCP's Cloudbuild. What about the old version of VSCode was fixed? Node version? Could be related.. Thanks

[bradzacher]

If you're using ESLint v7 - it requires a minimum of node 10.12.0.
Any older than that, and it will not work.

Note that the above error isn't anything to do with our plugin - it's actually just ESLint failing to work on an old version of node. The message of "Failed to load plugin '@typescript-eslint'" is a red-herring.

The actual error:

error = createRequire is not a function
stack = eslint/lib/shared/relative-module-resolver.js:28:20

https://github.com/eslint/eslint/blob/0f1f5ed2a20b8fb575d4360316861cf4c2b9b7bc/lib/shared/relative-module-resolver.js#L28

[jorgedavila25]

@bradzacher super helpful..Thank you!