Running npm test in a debug terminal in VSCode-CodePudding

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It seems to be running node without the flag I specified in the configuration? What am I misunderstanding about how this launch.json scheme works?

EDIT the more I've played around, the more it seems as if the configuration is just being completely ignored, so that it is using the default node.js configuration... I'm selecting the config from the drop-down and pressing the play icon:

Should that work?

Apart from running npm start in a terminal, the only "automatic" way of getting this to work is by opening the package.json and clicking on the little Debug button which appears by the scripts tag:

But I'd like to figure out how to use launch.json properly so that I can pass environments variables etc via that instead.

CodePudding user response：

You can try to create the npm test script directly in your launch.json as above:

{ // 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": [ { "name": "Run npm test", "request": "launch", "type": "node", "args": ["--experimental-json-modules", "${workspaceFolder}/nodeserver"], "env": { "MY_VAR": "abc" } } ] }

CodePudding user response：

launch.json

{ "version": "0.2.0", "configurations": [ { "type": "pwa-node", "request": "launch", "name": "Launch Program", "skipFiles": [ "<node_internals>/**" ], "program": "${workspaceFolder}\\index.js" }, { "type": "pwa-node", "request": "launch", "name": "Run Test", "skipFiles": [ "<node_internals>/**" ], // You can specify enviorment variables per config here // using key value pairs "env": { "test_variable": "test value" }, // You can also specify a .env file that contains them "envFile": "${workspaceFolder}/.env", // Here you specify the file you want launched "program": "${workspaceFolder}\\test.js", // add args to nodejs here "runtimeArgs": [ "--experimental-json-modules" ], } ] }

For reference: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/nodejs/nodejs-debugging