Question: Debugging and npm scripts

I’m looking for a way to run some npm scripts in Visual Studio Code (to lint/build/etc), then run, say, jasmine in debug mode from VSCode.

Currently to debug my tests, I have to:

npm run build_stuff
jasmine

I’d like to run the npm run build_stuff out of debug mode, then debug jasmine, which is running specs in my project.

Is it the intent of this extension to help support that use case?

[egamma]

How about you leave your build process as is, but once a test fails then you run tests under the debugger. To do so you can define a launch configuration as follows:

• Press F5 or the debug icon
• select node from the quick box
• edit the launch.json as follows (this assumes that jasmine is installed locally).

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "jasmine",
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${workspaceRoot}/node_modules/jasmine/bin/jasmine.js",
            "stopOnEntry": false,
            "args": [],
            "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
            "runtimeArgs": [
                "--nolazy"
            ],
            "env": {
                "NODE_ENV": "development"
            }
        }
    ]
}

If you always want to run the tests under the debugger then you could do what is described in this blog for debugging mocha tests, that is, you launch the tests and attach the debugger.

[fabian-dev]

The configuration Erich suggested works fine for me. Thanks!

I do as well debug other gulp tasks this way by adding new launch.js configurations this way: "program": "${workspaceRoot}/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js" "args": [ "jasmine" ]