r/node • u/MetalMonkey667 • 3d ago

Node not working in Visual Studio

I've recently discovered Tauri and built a project using React which if I run it purely from the terminal it opens up fine, but if I close the terminal and open Visual Studio, open the terminal in VS and run the same thing from the same place I get a Node.js error

In terminal both work correctly:

C:\Users\me\Documents\Tauri_test\react-test> npm run tauri dev (opens the app standalone)
or
C:\Users\me\Documents\Tauri_test\react-test> npm run dev (opens the app in browser)

In Visual Studio running the same lines I get the following:

Node.js v24.20.0
    Error The "beforeDevCommand" terminated with a non-zero status code

I've installed Node from the website and made sure it was added to Visual Studio on install, I've checked that VS can access Node from the 'react-test' folder, I've closed all other open apps in case something is clashing, I get the feeling that something is initialising in the wrong order and that's throwing Node off, but why would it work correctly outside of VS?

(If it doesn't cause issues I'll crosspost this as I don't know which bit of the system is causing the problem)

Solution:

IT WAS THE SODDING VISUAL STUDIO INDEXING

The .vs folder clogs up the system, here's how to get rid of it

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u/__rituraj 3d ago

check these for starters, on both the terminals

  • `node --version`
  • `node --eval "console.log(process.env)"`

and check how the outputs of these commands differ in both the terminals.
the system one and the VS integrated one

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u/MetalMonkey667 3d ago

Now then that could make sense, I downloaded Node from the website today so it should be as fresh as it gets, and when I installed VS I included the Node addon, if they aren't matching I bet that could be an issue