liveserver reloads the page if a new file is added to the project folder

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Hi All if you read the docs carefully, you will see this is a feature not a bug , deserves some prominance though.

I made a web app that pulls some json from an apiUrl and stores in an object. All was well until i started saving these objects as json files. I found that the page was reloading and losing the data collected from the session.

The problem was that i was saving the data to the project folder because a new file was added this triggers an automatic reload of the project in the browser (i thought it was a chrome issue because everything worked in other browsers opening edge say at http://127.0.0.1/

Saving outside the project folder not a problem , nor does creating a folder and setting it to be ignored in the live server settings.

It's natural to want to keep a project and related files together but this little gotcha took some figuring out. Yes it talks about it in the docs but it's not obvious.