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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:' #970
Description
🐛 The bug
When I try to use the 2.0 beta version on windows, Any command i try to run npm run dev npm install etc returns this error. I know the issue is caused by this extension. Even empty new projects start to error when nuxt scripts is installed
npm notice run postinstall
npm notice run nuxt prepare
ERROR 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 throwIfUnsupportedURLScheme (node:internal/modules/esm/load:193:11)
at defaultLoadSync (node:internal/modules/esm/load:146:3)
at #loadAndMaybeBlockOnLoaderThread (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:809:12)
at #loadSync (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:841:53)
at ModuleLoader.load (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:790:26)
at ModuleLoader.loadAndTranslate (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:501:31)
at #getOrCreateModuleJobAfterResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:567:36)
at afterResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:614:52)
at ModuleLoader.getOrCreateModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:620:12)
at node:internal/modules/esm/loader:639:32
npm error code 1
npm error path C:\Users\\Desktop\here
npm error command failed
npm error command C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c nuxt prepare
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2026-10-26T15_26_47_901Z-debug-0.log
🛠️ To reproduce
https://github.com/metkm/here
🌈 Expected behavior
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ℹ️ Additional context
No response
Reacted by Harlan Wilton
Activity
harlan-zw commentedon Oct 26, 2026
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