One Tip a Week: Auto Restart TS & ESLint Servers VS Code extension

This week’s tip of the week is the Auto Restart TypeScript & ESLint Servers extension for VS Code.

If you’ve done any amount of JavaScript or TypeScript development in VS Code, you’ve probably hit this annoying problem: ESLint or the TypeScript language server just stops working. Errors disappear, intellisense breaks, and the only fix seems to be reloading the whole editor or you’d open the command palette and run something like “Restart ESLint Server” or “Restart TS Server”.

With this extension, it automatically restarts the servers whenever they crash or hang, so you don’t have to think about it.

No more losing focus, no more wasted reloads. It just works in the background.

That’s it! Short and sweet. Until the next one!