But aren't you executing a task either way? Either running a script, or executing a command through Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+P, you have to do something to deploy.
I mean, hell, just set up gulp/grunt/another task runner to watch your files and run scp if you want it continuously running? Why involve your IDE at all at that point?
I set it up to deploy on save of the file or when the editor loses focus (when it auto-saves). So while you are correct I have to do “something” to make it deploy that “something” is either a hot key or me clicking out of my editor into the browser to refresh the page (talking about PHP here, all my frontend Vue work I do locally with a watch script to rebuild on changes).
Fair, that's more or less equivalent to a task runner watching the files. I'd recommend that approach only because it decouples the action from the editor. As long as the file changes, it executes.
