Debugger on VSCode for NodeJS stopped working today. It was working fine until late last week.
I couldn't directly upload the gif on StackOverflow (apparently the image is above the size limit) you can refer to the gif in the following link:
I recorded a short video (in .gif format) of what happens when I try to start debugging. The video shows that when running debugger, it launches, the debug buttons show up for a moment then shuts down with no error messages.
I've upgraded my VSCode from 1.94.0 to 1.95.2 late last week so I tried reinstalling the old version (1.94.0) but the same issue occurs.
The node version I am using is v23.2.0 and npm version is 10.9.0.
I've tried turning on "trace": true in launch.json and couldn't find any major issues or reasons as to why debug didn't run:
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My launch.json file is as follows:
{
// Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
// Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
// For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [
{
"type": "node",
"request": "launch",
"name": "Launch Program",
"skipFiles": [
"<node_internals>/**"
],
"program": "${workspaceFolder}\\app.js",
"trace": true
}
]
}
It seems to be a bug in 23.2.0 and 23.3.0, it works fine on 23.1.0 for me.