I have moved an existing node.js + express project to VS because I prefer the IDE over JetBrains for now (used VS for years, only peeked into Webstorm).
I used NTVS
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds....
(and yes, I did spend a long time searching and trying before posting here..)
Kind of nice to debug node.js server with VS..
hope this helps someone
Edit: The arguments to node.exe can be hard to read in the image. It must be
--debug=
that is with two dashes (and not just one) to specify the debug port.