Re:The Absolute Easiest Way to Debug Node.js – With VS Code
by orf on Sunday November 11, 2018 @08:54PM
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Same here, but with Python. The IntelliJ debugger is one of the absolute best features and I haven't found anything comparable yet.
Re:The Absolute Easiest Way to Debug Node.js – With VS Code
by snackman7 on Monday November 12, 2018 @12:32PM
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You can do this in VS Code as well. You create a launch.json file, and you can debug. A basic launch.json file is like 3 lines long, and VS Code makes it for you. There's no need for an extension. Maybe the author wasn't aware of that.
Re:The Absolute Easiest Way to Debug Node.js – With VS Code
by np_tedious on Monday November 12, 2018 @08:43AM
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How does this work with transpilation? Say I have typescript or a just different js than the end build, how does the debugger know which line to put the breakpoint on?
Does the run config need to be something more structured than "run this gulp command"?
Re:The Absolute Easiest Way to Debug Node.js – With VS Code
by mikewhy on Monday November 12, 2018 @10:27AM
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Pretty sure all you need is source maps.
Re:The Absolute Easiest Way to Debug Node.js – With VS Code
by chrisparton1991 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @06:39PM
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Yep, source maps do the trick.
Re:The Absolute Easiest Way to Debug Node.js – With VS Code
by np_tedious on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @09:14AM
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late response, but i just got stop debugging for a typescript/node app set up in webstorm. far easier than i (and this article) had built it up to be. the sourcemap stuff was actually already taken care of, it was the addition of `$NODE_DEBUG_OPTION` to the `ts-node-dev` command that did the trick
I'm using IntelliJ to set breakpoints everywhere in a Node application at this very moment. It's super easy to set up, you just create a Node.js run configuration and hit the debug button.