Unexpected token errors during editing

[jerone]

When editing the package.json file, I'm getting the following errors within VSCode:

Error

[Error - 17:00:33] ESLint stack trace:
[Error - 17:00:33] SyntaxError: Unexpected token } in JSON at position 1279
Occurred while linting C:\Sources\eslint-formatter-checklist\package.json:1
Rule: "json-files/sort-package-json"
    at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
    at editStringJSON (C:\Sources\eslint-formatter-checklist\node_modules\sort-package-json\index.js:327:17)
    at sortPackageJson (C:\Sources\eslint-formatter-checklist\node_modules\sort-package-json\index.js:349:10)
    at AssignmentExpression (C:\Sources\eslint-formatter-checklist\node_modules\eslint-plugin-json-files\lib\rules\sort-package-json.js:28:26)
    at ruleErrorHandler (C:\Sources\eslint-formatter-checklist\node_modules\eslint\lib\linter\linter.js:1114:28)
    at C:\Sources\eslint-formatter-checklist\node_modules\eslint\lib\linter\safe-emitter.js:45:58
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at Object.emit (C:\Sources\eslint-formatter-checklist\node_modules\eslint\lib\linter\safe-emitter.js:45:38)
    at NodeEventGenerator.applySelector (C:\Sources\eslint-formatter-checklist\node_modules\eslint\lib\linter\node-event-generator.js:297:26)
    at NodeEventGenerator.applySelectors (C:\Sources\eslint-formatter-checklist\node_modules\eslint\lib\linter\node-event-generator.js:326:22)

This happens in VSCode (v1.70.2) with ESLint extension (v2.2.6) installed, and the following configurations:

.vscode/settings.json

{
  "editor.codeActionsOnSave": {
    "source.fixAll": true
  },
  "eslint.validate": ["json", "jsonc"]
}

ESLint configuration

{
  "root": true,
  "overrides": [
    {
      "files": ["package.json"],
      "plugins": ["json-files"],
      "rules": {
        "json-files/sort-package-json": "error"
      }
    }
  ]
}

(Removed some unneeded configurations)

Current situation

The reason this happens is when I edit an package.json file (e.g. adding another property), the JSON files becomes in a temporary invalid state. This plugin tries to parse the invalid JSON for the sort-package-json-rule and throws an exception.

Expected situation

The solution should be to put the JSON parsing in an try-catch and swallow any exceptions until the JSON is valid.