VSCode is unresponsive during meteor reload

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Hi,

I have a 2016 MBP with 16GB Ram. The problem is that VSCode becomes unresponsive for a few seconds each time save a meteor project. I guess this is because it triggers a server reload, but I don’t know if this is normal or not. Any ideas/suggestions?

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I don’t know what causes the momentary unresponsiveness of VSCode, but I don’t think it’s normal. We have been working on various Meteor projects using different MBPs and didn’t encounter this phenomenon.

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If you are have any active virus or malware scanners running, they could be the cause of the issue. Microsoft Defender is notorious for Meteor build perf issues.

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Go to visual Studio codes preferences and lookup watcher exclude. This list prevent VSC from watching certain folders for changes.

Try adding /.meteor/ to exclude the meteor build folder from being watched by VSC.

You could also try
/.git/objects/
/.git/subtree-cache/

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Search Exclude & Files Excude are also good candidates to have certain folders ignored. This is especially true if your source is on a network drive

**/.git
**/.meteor/local
**/node_modules

VSC Git plugins can also cause chaos when using a network share on windows in VSC. Everything grinds to a halt.

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I think it happens when node debugging is turned on. VSCode once told me that it took too long to set up a breakpoint and I should update launch.json to exclude some folders, but I’m not sure what to do exactly.