vscode-js-debug VS debug

Now I'm attempting to configure it with just vscode-js-debug, looking at the https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-js-debug/blob/main/OPTIONS.md and trying to configure it with no success.

Maybe this

Chrome 111 breakpoints don't work (github, VS CODE specific)

If you pay attention to the image above you'll notice there are some mumbled log messages there I've filed an issue regarding those on vscode-js-debug In the meantime, if you have too many messages you may want to stick with dev tools

For reference, for debugging Typescript vscode-js is the current debugger used in vscode.

Debugging experience ain't all that great on Emacs when compared to VSCode. VSCode just simply wins here. Due to some technical complications, Emacs doesn't support VSCode js-debugger. It does support an older chrome debugger which might or might not work for most. I honestly didn't test it that much. Also, for a debugging workflow, I find it easier to use a mouse than a keyboard. I have been looking at how I can port the js-debugger to Emacs but I'm not sure if I have the necessary skills (BUT I'd still learn a lot). So for debugging I have been relying on VSCode.

vscode-node2-debug is now deprecated despite being the officially recommended dap adapter. The newer vscode-js-debug isn't dap compatible and doesn't look like it will be. I did see some hacks to make vscode-js-debug work, but I didn't try them myself. Some hacks and the compatibility issues are discussed here

It's a new JS debugger in VS Code, and they made it the default one in June last year.

Thanks for the update u/Amssstronggg; glad you found the culprit extension. Have you reported the problem already to the extension owners at Issues · microsoft/vscode-js-debug (github.com) ? I am sure they would love to take a look and see what's going on. I would also mention the slow extension activation problem there.

Number of dependencies: one way to tell if a library is not too challenging to be used as study source is based on the production dependencies count. The fewer the better. For example, I chose debug because it only has 1 dependency (ms), while the rest of the code relies on core NodeJS modules - which is exactly what I was looking for - to learn how to build a library from scratch, not off the shelf libraries with many external deps, which in turn are based on more deps. There you go, dependency hell.

Another way to solve this is to have the logs in place, but only enable them conditionally. If you enable all the logs are the time, you only get a lot of noise that won't help you. If you are using JavaScript, you can use the package debug to add logs that are active by the DEBUG environment variable.

I'm using the debug package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/debug, but some reason I don't see millisecond diffs, which would be really useful.

Although it's used by Express, it's indeed more broadly, the way a popular NPM package called debug works, which is used internally in Express too. Under the hood, the debug package expects the DEBUG environment variable to determine what debug messages to print (could be on the console, or into a file, or into stdout to be collected by a log aggregator service).

Finally, if they're logs you want to be able to inspect in production without printing them to the console by default, you can use debug.

It is a drop-in, TypeScript replacement to enhance the widely popular https://www.npmjs.com/package/debug (230k weekly downloads).

debug - npm - Required. A popular library to write debug logs.

I strongly recommend using the debug package from NPM to organize your log messages

Use the [debug npm library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/debug) to disable your logging unless someone provides the right environment variable (e.g. DEBUG=* which enables all logging)