[Feat]: launch.json for debugging appium and its unit test from source

I am trying to understand what’s going on in the Appium source code. And it’s really tough without debugging tool.

Maybe we can add one more configuration to launch.json for both debugging appium and its test

• So far I got one for debug appium.

{
      "type": "node",
      "request": "launch",
      "name": "launch appium",
      "skipFiles": ["<node_internals>/**"],
      "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
      "program": "${workspaceFolder}/packages/appium/index.js",
      "internalConsoleOptions": "openOnSessionStart",
    },

this one is working

• For the unit test, I tried this config

{
      "type": "node",
      "request": "launch",
      "name": "Mocha Tests",
      "program": "${workspaceFolder}/node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha",
      "args": [
        "--no-timeouts",
        "--require",
        "ts-node/register",
        "${workspaceFolder}/packages/appium/test/unit/extension/*.spec.js"
      ],
    }

It doesn’t work yet.

[boneskull]

I’m using VSCode, but I only use its debugger on E2E tests, and I don’t think I’ve had occasion to do that yet, so I overlooked it. For unit tests I use Wallaby

[mykola-mokhnach]

yes that vscode config is out-of-date. didn’t think anyone was using it! it should no longer require @babel/register

could you please update this config according to the recent project state when you have time? which IDE do you use for debugging btw?