What happened?

When using onlyAudits or onlyGroups in the Lighthouse plugin configuration, unexpected errors are thrown, indicating that category references are invalid due to missing audits or groups.

Examples of errors:

• For onlyGroups: ['performance']:

custom: The following category references need to point to an audit or group: lighthouse#accessibility (group), lighthouse#best-practices (group), lighthouse#seo (group)

• For onlyAudits: ['csp-xss']:

custom: The following category references need to point to an audit or group: lighthouse#performance (group), lighthouse#accessibility (group), lighthouse#seo (group)

What would you expect to happen?

• Categories should dynamically adjust their references to match the filtered audits and groups.
• Invalid references should be removed without throwing errors.
• Groups with no valid references should be excluded from the final configuration.
• Informational logs should detail which audits, groups, and categories were filtered out.

What steps did you take?

Set onlyGroups in lighthouseCoreConfig:

export const lighthouseCoreConfig = async (
  url: string,
): Promise<CoreConfig> => ({
  plugins: [
    await lighthousePlugin(url, {
      onlyGroups: ['performance'],
    }),
  ],
  categories: lighthouseCategories,
});

Set onlyAudits in lighthouseCoreConfig:

export const lighthouseCoreConfig = async (
  url: string,
): Promise<CoreConfig> => ({
  plugins: [
    await lighthousePlugin(url, {
      onlyAudits: ['csp-xss'],
    }),
  ],
  categories: lighthouseCategories,
});

Proposed Fix

• Update the Lighthouse plugin to dynamically filter invalid category references based on isSkipped audits and groups.
• Remove categories with no valid references.
• Log skipped audits, groups, and categories for transparency.

Code PushUp package version

No response

What operation system are you on?

MacOS

Node version

v22.10.0

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