Debugging nest.js application with vscode

Question

I am testing the nest.js framework but I am struggling to run it with VSCode so that I can properly debug my code. This is pretty much the same issue as described here Running n

Answer 1

No need to mess up with .vscode/launch.json, just follow the official Auto Attach intro and ... Just Works!

For example, I wanna debug my project quiz:

1. Toggle "Auto Attach" to "On"

2. Run the app as usual, for this project is npm run server:dev

3. When the app started successfully, attach to the process

4. See the first one? Click on it! Done! Now you can click on breakpoints and inspect!