How do I uninstall Biome CLI ?

[edumserrano]

I tried out the option in the extension to install Biome CLI:

But now I want to uninstall it and I don't see any option for that?

[raphaelgibson]

I have the sabe problem.

[nhedger]

The global binaries are downloaded in ExtensionContext.storageUri

Practically, this means that they get downloaded into a folder under:

• Linux: ~/.config/Code/User/workspaceStorage
• macOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/workspaceStorage
• Windows: C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\workspaceStorage

You can find all installed Biome CLIs across all workspaces using find (or similar)

find ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/workspaceStorage -name "biome"

It should output something like

~ find ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/workspaceStorage -name "biome"
/Users/nicolas/Library/Application Support/Code/User/workspaceStorage/35d02d2827d2a00574fa1b3adaed976a/biomejs.biome/biome
/Users/nicolas/Library/Application Support/Code/User/workspaceStorage/3193da92c457eee351225f4b655d66f4/biomejs.biome/biome

[edumserrano]

@edumserrano Yeah.. just hit Disable (workspace) in the project where you do not use Biome Same goes for prettier/eslint in other projects where you do use Biome

Not sure how to uninstall CLI except to uninstall/disable it via extensions

Don't think your example is the same. If you see my original post, I used an option on the biome VSCode extension that allows you to install a bundled Biome version instead of installing the Biome NPM package. I was trying things out and that's why I did that. The side effect of doing that is that now for every other project I have, I'm getting Biome linting errors/warnings. I don't want to have to disable the extension for every other project except for the ones where I use Biome.

I want to use Biome only on the projects where I have installed the Biome NPM package. However, now that I've tried out the Biome VSCode option to install a bundled version of Biome I can't seem to do this. This is what I mean by surely there should be an option that does the reverse of whatever the Select the version of the Biome CLI to install operation that is performed by the Biome VSCode extension does? Or not?

[edumserrano]

To add to the above, whatever the Biome VSCode extension did with the install Biome CLI operation, it only applies to VSCode. Meaning if I type biome on my shell it doesn't recognize it. I'm using Windows and it might just be because that operation didn't add it to the path variable or install the package as a global package.

Anyways, I'm only mentioning this to try and make it clear that all I want to do is reverse that install operation that the Biome VSCode extension did. That's all.

[stevan-borus]

I did exactly the same thing.. that is how I got here in the first place. It would definitely be nice if there is an option to uninstall the CLI.
I just wanted to let you know how to mitigate the problem a bit for now.

[edumserrano]

Right, thank you @stevan-borus .

Hopefully someone will provide a resolution for this. @nhedger, you closed this but wouldn't it be best to re-open this until a proper solution is found?

[aon]

I found out how to delete the biome binary. When the extension starts it will log the binary path in the output tab, as seen here:

biome-vscode/src/binary-finder.ts

Lines 247 to 251 in d66afc6

	if (downloadedVersion) {
	info(
	`Using previously downloaded version ${downloadedVersion.version}: ${downloadedVersion.binPath.fsPath}`,
	);
	return downloadedVersion.binPath;

.

From there you can just remove the binary and restart the editor.