TS Restarter

This extension makes VSCode restart TS Server automatically on file (globs) change!

TL;DR

Put this (or something like it) in the settings.json of the project:

{
  // (...)
  "ts-restarter.watch": [
    "./packages/shared/dist/**/*.js"
    "./packages/shared/types/**/*.ts"
  ],
  // (...)
}

The problem

When working on monorepo with a shared library, if one changes some files in it, one has to restart VSCode TS Server for the changes to be reflected in the server and/or client (or other) workspace.

The basic solutions

One can either:

• Restart VSCode (bad, don't do that)
• Reload window (almost as bad, don't do that)
• Restart TS Server manually: Shift Ctrl p or Shift Cmd p, and then search for the command TypeScript: Restart TS Server (better)
• Set a keyboard shortcut like Ctrl K T and use it every time something in shared has changed (much better)

The solution this extension provides

The even better solution would be to let VSCode know what files to watch to restart its TS Server on any change on this specific files (with)... That is what this extension is for.

Maybe this extension is useles, if you know a better way, please tell me!

How

Tell the extension what globs to watch (and optionnally ignore), chokidar will watch them and if a change occurs, the VSCode internal command typescript.restartTsServer will be executed.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• ts-restarter.watch: array of globs for files to watch.
• ts-restarter.ignore: array of globs for files to ignore.

So in your configuration (settings.json in the .vscode folder at the root of the project is recommended), put something like this:

{
  // (...)
  "ts-restarter.watch": [
    "./packages/shared/dist/**/*.js"
    "./packages/shared/types/**/*.ts"
  ],
  // (...)
}

Release Notes

Users appreciate release notes as you update your extension.

1.0.1

Put dist and types instead of source files in the examples in README

1.0.0

Initial release of TS Server