My goal is to develop a VS Code extension with speech recognition, ideally via google's API.
When attempting to import and use @google-cloud/speech, the following error is thrown at runtime:
Error: @grpc/grpc-js only works on Node ^8.13.0 || >=10.10.0
VS Code (as of 6/20/2019) is running electron 3.18 and node.js 10.2.0. Does this mean there is no way to work around this issue?
I'm following this tutorial: https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/streaming-recognize
Sounds like it should work starting with the next release then. From the preliminary 1.36 release notes:
The Electron version that VS Code runs on has been updated and brings with it an update to Node.js from
10.2.0to10.11.0. All extensions will now run on this newer version of Node.js.
To make sure, you can try an Insider's build.
Generally speaking though, there's no way to control what Node version VSCode extension run on (see here), so I guess you got lucky here. :)
