How to debug NodeJS(ES6) code in VSCode editor?

Question

I am trying to debug my nodejs application written in ES6 from VSCode. But it is throwing following error:

node --debug-brk=18712 --nolazy index.js 
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Answer 1

You need to set runtimeExecutable in launch.json configuration file to the value of babel-node's path.

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Launch via Babel",
            "program": "${workspaceRoot}/index.js",
            "runtimeExecutable": "${workspaceRoot}/node_modules/.bin/babel-node",
            "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}"
        }
    ]
}