@dbaeumer What can the user do to figure out what's wrong?

@RMacfarlane took that over. We might want to consider changing the publisher

If there anything in the JSHint output panel?

Even after selecting F1 JSHint : Show Output, the Output tab is empty. All I got is the error message.

Failed to load jshint library. Please install jshint in your workspace folder using npm install jshint or globally using npm install -g jshint and then press Retry.

@NatoBoram do you have jshint itself installed? Your workspace doesn't have a node_modules folder.

Also, can you reproduce with VS Code without Snap? https://update.code.visualstudio.com/latest/linux-x64/insider

@dbaeumer JSHint was installed globally. The workspace isn't a NodeJS project.

jshint --version
jshint v2.10.2

@joaomoreno
No. The .deb works fine.

@NatoBoram does it work if you install jshint locally?

Yes, it works when installed locally.

@NatoBoram Do you use NVM? If you open the Developer Tools and run getLazyEnv().then(console.log), do you get the expected environment?

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Happy Coding!

Reopening.

@joaomoreno and I looked into this and the problem seems to be that the environment is not correctly sourced when running out of a snap which makes the server fail looking up global node moddules.

Also faced this issue. the problem is with gnome launcher .desktop file. it does not run ~/.bashrc or any other shell environment file. running code from terminal inherits the environment and works just fine.
Fixed it temporarily by editing /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/code_code.desktop and changing the Exec line from:
Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/code_code.desktop /snap/bin/code %U
to:
Exec=bash -c "source $HOME/.bashrc && env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/code_code.desktop /snap/bin/code %U"

I have a similar issue but the above does not fix it.
If I add VSCode as a favorite from the UBUNTU dash and then click VSCode icon on the sidebar none of my scripts work in VSCode script explorer. I get npm not found.
If I start VSCode within a terminal everything works.

I should have said "none of my npm scripts work

Root cause: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/new-store-automated-review-rule-is-incorrect/12963/27?u=joaomoreno

Fix should come soon from the snapcraft team!

Fixed by #80585

cc @alexr00