Angular CLI 1.7.0 and Visual Studio Code - can't set breakpoints

Question

I\'m using the Chrome Debugger plugin in Visual Studio Code to debug an Angular application. After upgrading to use angular/cli@1.7.0, we can no longer hit breakpoints in t

Answer 1

For those coming across this the fix is to modify your launch.json sourceMapPathOverrides as follows:

"sourceMapPathOverrides": { 
    "webpack:/*": "${webRoot}/*" 
}

This fixed it for me with the latest @angular/cli (version 1.7.3).

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