Running lighthouse-cli inside Visual Studio Code via tasks.json.

tasks.json

{
  // Some basic lighthouse testing using docker, lighthouse-cli, jq, tr Note,
  // you must search/replace the test url (no var support in tasks.json
  // currently)
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "tasks": [
    // NOTE: you don't have to run the container to make this work, you can
    // simply change the lighthouse commands as required below to work with your
    // setup (I find the container easier)
    {
      "label": "Start chrome-headless docker container",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "docker run -p 9222:9222 --security-opt seccomp=$HOME/chrome.json --name chrome-headless justinribeiro/chrome-headless",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "never"
      }
    },
    {
      "label": "lighthouse:FMP score",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "lighthouse --quiet --port=9222 --preset=perf --output=json  https://example.com | jq 'if .audits.\"first-meaningful-paint\".score < 100 then \"FAIL: FMP score too low!\", .audits.\"first-meaningful-paint\".score else \"SUCCESS: FMP looks good!\", .audits.\"first-meaningful-paint\".score end' | tr -d '\"' ",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always"
      }
    },
    {
      "label": "lighthouse:FMP timings",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "lighthouse --quiet --port=9222 --preset=perf --output=json  https://example.com | jq '.audits.\"first-meaningful-paint\".extendedInfo.value.timings' | tr -d '\"' ",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always"
      }
    },
    {
      "label": "lighthouse:FirstInteractive score",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "lighthouse --quiet --port=9222 --preset=perf --output=json  https://example.com | jq 'if .audits.\"first-interactive\".score < 100 then \"FAIL: FirstInteractive score too low!\", .audits.\"first-interactive\".score else \"SUCCESS: FirstInteractive looks good!\", .audits.\"first-interactive\".score end' | tr -d '\"' ",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always"
      }
    },
    {
      "label": "lighthouse:FirstInteractive timings",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "lighthouse --quiet --port=9222 --preset=perf --output=json  https://example.com | jq '.audits.\"first-interactive\".extendedInfo.value' | tr -d '\"' ",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always"
      }
    },
    {
      "label": "lighthouse:ConsistentlyInteractive score",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "lighthouse --quiet --port=9222 --preset=perf --output=json  https://example.com | jq 'if .audits.\"consistently-interactive\".score < 100 then \"FAIL: ConsistentlyInteractive score too low!\", .audits.\"consistently-interactive\".score else \"SUCCESS: ConsistentlyInteractive looks good!\", .audits.\"consistently-interactive\".score end' | tr -d '\"' ",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always"
      }
    },
    {
      "label": "lighthouse:ConsistentlyInteractive timings",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "lighthouse --quiet --port=9222 --preset=perf --output=json  https://example.com | jq '.audits.\"consistently-interactive\".extendedInfo.value' | tr -d '\"' ",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always"
      }
    },
    {
      "label": "lighthouse:SpeedIndex score",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "lighthouse --quiet --port=9222 --preset=perf --output=json  https://example.com | jq 'if .audits.\"speed-index-metric\".score < 100 then \"FAIL: SpeedIndex score too low!\", .audits.\"speed-index-metric\".score else \"SUCCESS: SpeedIndex looks good!\", .audits.\"speed-index-metric\".score end' | tr -d '\"' ",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always"
      }
    },
    {
      "label": "lighthouse:SpeedIndex timings",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "lighthouse --quiet --port=9222 --preset=perf --output=json  https://example.com | jq '.audits.\"speed-index-metric\".extendedInfo.value.timings' | tr -d '\"' ",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always"
      },
      "problemMatcher": []
    },
    {
      "label": "lighthouse:MainThread breakdown",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "lighthouse --quiet --port=9222 --preset=perf --output=json  https://example.com | jq '.audits.\"mainthread-work-breakdown\".displayValue, .audits.\"mainthread-work-breakdown\".extendedInfo.value' | tr -d '\"' ",
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Example in use: