A preview command for VS Code extension?

[AustenLamacraft]

This question has been discussed in this issue but while the workflow I'm using right now still OK, it could be better...

To get a preview in VS Code with file changes watched, I run the render command in VS Code, which opens a preview but uses the --no-watch-inputs flag. I then stop the command at the terminal and run quarto preview without --no-watch-inputs.

This seems a bit cumbersome. What I'd really like is a preview command, or something, as well as a render command, which runs
quarto preview without --no-watch-inputs. Or maybe a setting in the extension settings to change the default behaviour

[mcanouil]

You can turn on the "render on save" feature quarto.render.renderOnSave (disabled by default for performance reason).

[AustenLamacraft]

Ah thanks, that's great!

[astrowonk]

The "render on save" feature is good, but why does the render command in the command palette default to --no-watch-inputs with no way to change that? It's always confused me. The text in the terminal even says "Watching files for changes" but it's not.

[mcanouil]

See:

• VSCode: watch for changes in server preview #1939 (comment)