How to debug a nodemon project in VSCode

Question

I have a NodeJs project and I run it using nodemon,
I wish to run it in debug mode for development tasks, but I am unable to do so.

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Answer 1

In vscode config, you can set the runtimeExecutable which will run the program you give. set restart:true so vs code debugger can restart the process.

This is an example config:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "node", 
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "nodemon",
            "runtimeExecutable": "nodemon",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/bin/www",
            "restart": true,
            "console": "integratedTerminal",
            "internalConsoleOptions": "neverOpen",
            "env": {
                "debug": "app:*",
            }
        }
    ]
}

Update program to the node file you want to debug.

It's easy than attaching a debugger to the running node process.