diff --git a/packages/editor-ui/src/components/CodeNodeEditor/linter.ts b/packages/editor-ui/src/components/CodeNodeEditor/linter.ts
index 0660ee2a8c..439aba0215 100644
--- a/packages/editor-ui/src/components/CodeNodeEditor/linter.ts
+++ b/packages/editor-ui/src/components/CodeNodeEditor/linter.ts
@@ -30,6 +30,15 @@ export const linterExtension = (Vue as CodeNodeEditorMixin).extend({
 			} catch (syntaxError) {
 				let line;
 
+				try {
+					const lineAtError = editorView.state.doc.line(syntaxError.lineNumber - 1).text;
+
+					// optional chaining operators currently unsupported by esprima-next
+					if (['?.', ']?'].some((operator) => lineAtError.includes(operator))) return [];
+				} catch (_) {
+					return [];
+				}
+
 				try {
 					line = editorView.state.doc.line(syntaxError.lineNumber);
 
@@ -41,7 +50,7 @@ export const linterExtension = (Vue as CodeNodeEditorMixin).extend({
 							message: this.$locale.baseText('codeNodeEditor.linter.bothModes.syntaxError'),
 						},
 					];
-				} catch (error) {
+				} catch (_) {
 					/**
 					 * For invalid (e.g. half-written) n8n syntax, esprima errors with an off-by-one line number for the final line. In future, we should add full linting for n8n syntax before parsing JS.
 					 */