Starting the Ionic dev server timed out (30000 ms)

While debugging an ionic / Cordova app and selecting Serve to the browser, i keep getting the message:

Starting the Ionic dev server timed out (30000 ms)

{
            "name": "Serve to the browser (ionic serve)",
            "type": "cordova",
            "request": "launch",
            "platform": "serve",
            "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
            "devServerAddress": "localhost",
            "sourceMaps": true,
            "ionicLiveReload": true,
        }

I have added the devServerTimeout parameter to the above launch.json .

launch.json should look like this after the update.