Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Visual Studio 2013 Crashing

I am used to VS so I tried opening a project that I scaffold using yeoman. But to my surprise VS just crashes when I open the project as a website.

I had a feeling it has something to do with the node_modules folder, to test I deleted it and VS loaded the website for editing. The next thing was: how do I load the website project without that node_modules folder?

The only thing I could find that works is to set the “Hidden” attribute for the node_modules folder.

  1. Open Windows Explorer. 
  2. Right click the node_modules folder which you want to exclude, and then select “Properties”.
  3. Check the “Hidden” attribute.

You can now open the website in VS and it will not load the node_modules folder. Problem solved for now.