Background processes not spawning for bash

[Twiggeh]

Can't create background processes from tasks.json . Basically if I append & to a command it doesn't work …

tasks.json

  "tasks": [
    {
      "type": "shell",
      "label": "start webpack",
      "command": "cd bin && ./startWebpack.sh &"
    },
]

startWebpack.sh

#!/bin/bash
echo "Starting webpack-dev-server"
cd .. && cd client && yarn debug &

Example recording

I start the command just by itself in bash & the script runs, if I start it from vsc it doesn't. This setup still worked yesterday …

[connor4312]

I don't think this is related to js-debug, as tasks are handled separately. Transferring to vscode and Alex.

[alexr00]

When your shell is bash, tasks are run like this:

bash -c cd bin && ./startWebpack.sh &

If you can get your command to run like that, then that's great. However, tasks does provide easier mechanisms for what you're trying to do.
If you want to run a task without showing it and start it in a different directory, try something like this:

		{
			"type": "shell",
			"label": "start webpack",
			"command": "./startWebpack.sh",
			"options": {
				"cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/bin"
			},
			"presentation": {
				"reveal": "never"
			}