E0256: catch variable can only be typed as '*', 'any', or 'unknown'

In TypeScript, a catch variable can be annotated with either no type, *, any, or unknown. It is an error to annotate a catch variable with a specific error type:

function loadConfig(path) {
  let json = fs.readFileSync(path, "utf-8");
  try {
    return JSON.parse(json);
  } catch (e: SyntaxError) {
    console.warn(`failed to load config: ${e}`);
    return null;
  }
}

To fix this error, annotate the catch variable with the unknown type, then use instanceof to check the error's type at run time:

function loadConfig(path) {
  let json = fs.readFileSync(path, "utf-8");
  try {
    return JSON.parse(json);
  } catch (e: unknown) {
    if (e instanceof SyntaxError) {
      console.warn(`failed to load config: ${e}`);
      return null;
    } else {
      throw e;
    }
  }
}

Introduced in quick-lint-js version 2.7.0.

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