issue with windows NPM based installation

[kri-kan]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

OS/Web Information

Web Browser:Chrome

• Local OS:Windows 11
• Remote OS:same machine
• Remote Architecture:
• code-server --version
  4.95.3

Steps to Reproduce

1.npm install code-server
2.open in browser
3.seeing this error

[2024-11-23T11:24:07.616Z] info Wrote default config file to C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\code-server\Config\config.yaml
[2024-11-23T11:24:07.928Z] info code-server 4.95.3 b0c935a
[2024-11-23T11:24:07.929Z] info Using user-data-dir C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\code-server\Data
[2024-11-23T11:24:07.935Z] warn Could not create socket at C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\code-server\Data\code-server-ipc.sock
[2024-11-23T11:24:07.940Z] info Using config file C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\code-server\Config\config.yaml
[2024-11-23T11:24:07.940Z] info HTTP server listening on http://127.0.0.1:8080/
[2024-11-23T11:24:07.940Z] info - Authentication is enabled
[2024-11-23T11:24:07.940Z] info - Using password from C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\code-server\Config\config.yaml
[2024-11-23T11:24:07.940Z] info - Not serving HTTPS
[2024-11-23T11:24:07.940Z] info Session server listening on C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\code-server\Data\code-server-ipc.sock
[2024-11-23T11:24:21.513Z] error CodeServerRouteWrapper: Only URLs with a scheme in: file, data, and node are supported by the default ESM loader. On Windows, absolute paths must be valid file:// URLs. Received protocol 'c:' Error [ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME]: Only URLs with a scheme in: file, data, and node are supported by the default ESM loader. On Windows, absolute paths must be valid file:// URLs. Received protocol 'c:'
at new NodeError (node:internal/errors:406:5)
at throwIfUnsupportedURLScheme (node:internal/modules/esm/load:216:11)
at defaultLoad (node:internal/modules/esm/load:118:3)
at ModuleLoader.load (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:396:13)
at ModuleLoader.moduleProvider (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:278:56)
at new ModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:65:26)
at #createModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:290:17)
at ModuleLoader.getJobFromResolveResult (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:248:34)
at ModuleLoader.getModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:229:17)
at async ModuleLoader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:315:23)

Expected

doesnt load code editor

Actual

expected to show code editor

Logs

Screenshot/Video

No response

Does this bug reproduce in native VS Code?

This cannot be tested in native VS Code

Does this bug reproduce in GitHub Codespaces?

No, this works as expected in GitHub Codespaces

Are you accessing code-server over a secure context?

• I am using a secure context.

Notes

No response

[Yakraii]

I encountered the same issue.

[code-asher]

Does this only happen when code-server is hosted on Windows? Or does it happen when accessing from Windows, even if hosted on Linux?

We do not have support for running the server on Windows yet, but we do support accessing from Windows.

[kri-kan]

It's both hosted and accessed on windows. In documentation I see there is a suggested approach using npm on windows, Is that not working yet?

[code-asher]

Good point, I am not sure when or why that section was added since we are not currently testing on Windows. Sorry for the misleading documentation!

I think it is possible it used to work and someone added that section, but something might have broke when VS Code switched to ESM. We really need to add Windows builds and tests to CI to make sure we have proper support.

Tracking for Windows support is here: #1397