从 Marketplace 安装时，VSCode 扩展找不到模块

Question

I'm trying to write a VS Code Extension that require s other node modules. Unfortunately the modules are not found when a user installs the extensions from the marketplace.

What I did is add the modules to the dependencies section of my package.json (Which is what theextension manifest wants). When I run npm install locally, a node_modules folder is created and contains the modules. Running the extension locally via launch.json works.

However when the extension is installed through the VS Code Marketplace , triggering its action will fail and the debug tools console will show the message

Activating extension 'lalten.vscode-unify' failed: Cannot find module 'tempy'
Require stack:
- /home/laurenz/.vscode-server/extensions/lalten.vscode-unify-0.2.2/out/extension.js
- /home/laurenz/.vscode-server/bin/3c4e3df9e89829dce27b7b5c24508306b151f30d/out/vs/loader.js
- /home/laurenz/.vscode-server/bin/3c4e3df9e89829dce27b7b5c24508306b151f30d/out/bootstrap-amd.js
- /home/laurenz/.vscode-server/bin/3c4e3df9e89829dce27b7b5c24508306b151f30d/out/bootstrap-fork.js.

And the node_modules dir is indeed missing:

$ ls /home/user/.vscode-server/extensions/lalten.vscode-unify-0.2.2/
icon.png  images  LICENSE.md  out  package.json  README.md

(This happens both in a local and ssh-remote vscode-server, /home/laurenz/.vscode/extensions/lalten.vscode-unify-0.2.2/ also has no node_modules.)

The .vscodeignore seems to be innocent and vsce ls includes node_modules/.

Other people had this problem in the past, but their resolution was to update vsce (I have the most recent 1.87.1), using dependencies instead of devDependencies (which I do), or deleting the node_modules folder (which did not help).

I also find it curious that the extension works in CI , so my hunch is that it must be something with how it's published.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

It turns out my package.json had in the scripts section:

    "deploy": "vsce publish --yarn"

when it should have been

    "deploy": "vsce publish"

Now the node_modules are included.

Thanks for the helpful comments that brought me on the right track. I will also look into bundling the extension in the future.