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

in launch.json have

{
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  "version": "0.2.0",
   "configurations": [
    {
        "type": "node",
        "request": "launch",
        "name": "Debug Nest Framework",
        "args": ["${workspaceFolder}/src/main.ts"],
        "runtimeArgs": ["--nolazy", "-r", "ts-node/register"],
        "sourceMaps": true,
        "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
        "protocol": "inspector"
    }
   ]
  }