Every once in a while when I try to start my Azure function locally from VS code I get the error “Could not find the task func: host start”. The first time I got this error I probably spent at least half a day trying different solutions before I got it to work again. But the last two times I’ve used the same simple solution so I thought I might as well share it and maybe save someone else some time.
The solution
Uninstall the Azure Function VS code extension, and the re-install it.
Yes, thats it. Sceptical? I was too, but I was also desperate to get it to work so I decided to try and this has helped me multiple times now.
If you have experienced the same error but with a different solution let me know in the comments below so I can update the blogpost to include different solutions.
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Thank you for reading, and happy coding!
/Eli