Jekyll server not updating and crashing on exit (Windows)

[jpanneton]

Whenever I start the server with 'npm run local', there is no way to exit it cleanly. Ctrl-C doesn't work in the standard Windows terminal and in Git Bash it makes the whole console freeze. In both case, I need to force close them and the execution exits with code 1. Also, it seems like the server doesn't see any file updates. I have tried with --force_polling option, to no avail. Sometimes it will detect a change, but it's extremely rare and random. Note that I don't experience these issues on a vanilla Jekyll setup.

[jpanneton]

I did not investigate much yet, but with a debugger it seems like the 'npm run local' command is generating multiple exceptions in nodejs. I'm using the following launch.json file in vscode in case someone would like to try (be sure the Caught Exceptions checkbox is checked too in the bottom Breakpoints section before running):

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Run Website",
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "runtimeExecutable": "npm",
            "runtimeArgs": [
                "run-script", "local"
            ]
        }
    ]
}