You can capture and view performance profiles natively in VS Code, by clicking on the ⚪ button in the Call Stack view, or through the Debug: Take Performance Profile command. In the previous debugger, you had to remember to add the -inspect flag when you ran a command, and couldn't hit breakpoints early in the program since attachment was asynchronous. You can also create a one-off terminal for debugging via the Debug: Create JavaScript Debug Terminal command. Once enabled, you can toggle Auto Attach by clicking the Auto Attach: On/Off button in the status bar on the bottom of your screen. Next time you run a command like npm start, we'll debug it. If auto attach isn't on, you can run the command Debug: Toggle Auto Attach to turn it on. You can debug any Node.js process you run in the terminal with our revamped Auto Attach. While debugging workers, you can also step through postMessage() calls. In browsers, service workers, webworkers, and iframes will be debugged as well. In Node.js, child processes will automatically be debugged. Here are a few new features that js-debug brings: Debug child process and workers In js-debug we aim to provide rich debugging for modern applications, with no or minimal configuration required. Open the extensions view (ctrl+shift+x) and search for Right click on the JavaScript Debugger extension and Disable it.The nightly build runs at 5PM PST on each day that there are changes ( see pipeline).
#Microsoft script debugger download install#
The shipped version of VS Code includes the js-debug version at the time of its release, however you may want to install our nightly build to get the latest fixes and features. It has been the default JavaScript debugger in Visual Studio Code since 1.46, and is gradually rolling out in Visual Studio proper. It debugs Node.js, Chrome, Edge, WebView2, VS Code extensions, and more.