development environment just hangs

Robert Nash said:

"${workspaceFolder}/artifacts/plugins"

For what it's worth, this isn't a default configured path in the template. By default, it uses ${workspaceFolder}/artifacts/build for the debug build output path, which is also used as the mount point for the /app/cfs/plugins path in the compose definition. It's fine to change these up from the defaults, but make sure they're changed everywhere, which could also potentially cause issues with DLL resolution in the app.

Robert Nash said:

"${workspaceFolder}/artifacts/plugins"

For what it's worth, this isn't a default configured path in the template. By default, it uses ${workspaceFolder}/artifacts/build for the debug build output path, which is also used as the mount point for the /app/cfs/plugins path in the compose definition. It's fine to change these up from the defaults, but make sure they're changed everywhere, which could also potentially cause issues with DLL resolution in the app.

Yep, everything in development is worked with the slightly altered paths.