Do you feel the need of a better VSCode extension?

[giacomorebonato]

The main official extension is unmaintained and in many cases it breaks syntax highlight.

Hence my way to use JSON5 in VSCode is to:

1. associate .json5 extension to JavaScript

  "files.associations": {
    "*.json5": "javascript"
  },

2. and then to disable JavaScript validation to not see the following error:

Solution:

"javascript.validate.enable": false

Pros

I can now use eslint to lint my JSON5 files using eslint-plugin-jsonc

Cons

I have disabled JavaScript validation for any files associated with the language.

Conclusion

May I ask your thoughts regarding this scenario?
Are you using the JSON5 extension or are you building like me some custom tooling?

Other discussions

• Support JSON5 syntax by treating it as JS, but without validating it microsoft/vscode#190678
• Question: vscode and JSON5 syntax highlight ota-meshi/eslint-plugin-jsonc#256