Debugging current file in VS Code
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I am writing javascript and am currently doing simple exercises/programs. At times, I wish to run my file for testing purposes. I am aware I could create an HTML
file and do this within the console. In Sublime, there exists a way to "build" the current file and immediately see the results (say, whatever is sent to console.log).
With VS Code, it seems that for every file I want to "build"/debug in this manner, I must manually change the launch.json
file to reflect the name of the current program.
I have been researching a way around this, and I learned that there are variables like ${file}
, but when I use that in the launch.json
"program" attribute, for example:
"program": "${workspaceRoot}/${file}"
with or without the workspaceRoot
part, I get the following error:
Attribute "program" does not exist" (file name here).
Am I missing a simple way to accomplish this, or must I keep editing launch.json
every time I want to run the file?
Thanks in advance!
Javascript Solutions
Solution 1 - Javascript
Change to:
"program": "${file}"
Solution 2 - Javascript
For reference this is the full launch.json
{
"launch": {
"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [
{
"name": "Node.js - Debug Current File",
"type": "node",
"request": "launch",
"program": "${file}"
}
]
}
}
Solution 3 - Javascript
For a single file, you can skip the launch.json file entirely. Just click the green arrow in the debugger panel and choose Node as your environment.
From here.