JS/TS server crashing immediately 5 times and won't restart

[1jinwoo]

Type: Bug

The very first error message with IntelliCode extension enabled:

The error message:

This issue has happened to me twice already. And the difficult part is I don't know what fixed it the first time.

First time it happend I tried the following:

1. reinstalled VSCode
2. uninstalled all extensions and enabled them one by one
3. reinstalled VSCode after clearing out all caches (following these steps:

rm -fr ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.VSCode.helper.plist 
rm -fr ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.VSCode.plist 
rm -fr ~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.VSCode
rm -fr ~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.VSCode.ShipIt/
rm -fr ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/
rm -fr ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.microsoft.VSCode.savedState/
rm -fr ~/.vscode/

4. Changed Max TS Server Memory
5. Re-cloned the repo I was working on, and opened it

After trying all these, none worked. But then after a restart of VSCode, somehow JS/TS Server stopped crashing and IntelliSense started working.

Now it's my second time experiencing this issue and I can't figure out how to fix this again.

The first time that this issue occurs, the error message blames "IntelliCode" extension. So once I disable it, then it says JS/TS Server immediately crashed 5 times and won't retry.

I did experience slowing down of IntelliSense while coding right before this error recurred. Maybe I had way too many TS files open at once? But why does it persist after restarting VSCode or the computer itself, I don't know.

I am using 4.3.5-sdk version of TypeScript (which is repo's version. When I use workspace's version which is 5.3.2, the JS/TS server crashing issue does not happen and IntelliSesnse works as expected).

VS Code version: Code 1.86.2 (Universal) (903b1e9, 2024-02-13T19:42:13.651Z)
OS version: Darwin x64 23.2.0
Modes:

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz (12 x 2600)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled
Load (avg)	4, 6, 5
Memory (System)	16.00GB (2.81GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id dad13951-f7c6-41ff-9983-22f3707a98dd
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Extensions (15)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
vscode-zipfs	arc	3.0.0
vscode-eslint	dba	2.4.4
gitlens	eam	14.8.2
prettier-vscode	esb	10.1.0
vscode-docker	ms-	1.29.0
remote-containers	ms-	0.338.1
java	red	1.28.1
vscode-extension-bpmn-editor	red	0.26.1
vscode-yaml	red	1.14.0
pdf	tom	1.2.2
vscode-java-debug	vsc	0.56.1
vscode-java-dependency	vsc	0.23.4
vscode-java-pack	vsc	0.25.15
vscode-java-test	vsc	0.40.1
vscode-maven	vsc	0.44.0

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[1jinwoo]

I fixed this issue following steps here: https://yarnpkg.com/getting-started/editor-sdks

The exact steps I took were:

1. Update the root package.json file to include typescript (include other supported extensions if needed)
2. run yarn dlx @yarnpkg/sdks vscode
3. Make sure VSCode is using the repo's version of typescript