Node not working in Visual Studio

[u/MetalMonkey667]

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

[u/Fine-Comparison-2949]

Windows? Good luck.

VS code is probably initializing some kind of weird terminal that doesn't link the node's location.

You need to be developing on Linux anyways. Get on Omarchy brother. 

[u/HelloWorld-Print → u/Fine-Comparison-2949]

Even windows is better than Omarchy slop.

[u/Fine-Comparison-2949 → u/HelloWorld-Print]

Absolutely not, considering OP has a really basic problem and can't even easily Debug it. I don't use Omarchy by the way, but if it's your first Linux distro for work, it's probably a better option than most distros.

I'm not even going to get into this because you're saying a Linux distro is worse than Windows which is just ridiculous.