I use Visual Studio Code (VSCode). I run several front end enterprise sized projects locally to fix bugs and refactor bits (angular & sometimes react). Biggest one I currently run is an Angular monorepo using NX but I’m not sure that’s relevant. I also save often (used to have power cuts a lot). Projects constantly have to rebuild after starting a localhost live server for dev build UI. I’m wondering if there is a way to pause the live reload process from listening then later un-pause when I’m ready without killing the whole node process and starting the build from scratch.

I’m trying to get a local dev env set up for making contributions to the Vscode repo. As part of the set-up instructions, you’re supposed to set a npm config option “msvs_version”. Attempting to do so results in an error;