VS Code starts debugging in integrated terminal instead of debug console

Question

I\'ve been using VS Code for quite some time and just today I started having this strange issue. Previously if I started debugging an program (F5) it would start debugging a

Answer 1

The accepted answer didn't work for me as it doesn't appear to be an option on my version of VSCode Version 1.30.2 (1.30.2):

Unknown console type 'none'.

The solution for me was to use the internalConsole option instead. I suppose it must be defaulting to the integratedTerminal option on my version.

Here is an example:

NOTE: this is an example from my nodejs project but the console portion is still relevant regardless of project type. I have included more to show some context as well as other features such as envFile usage.

...    
{
    "type": "node",
    "request": "launch",
    "name": "Launch Program",
    "envFile": "${workspaceRoot}/.env",
    "program": "${workspaceFolder}/src/index.js",
    "autoAttachChildProcesses": true,
    "console": "internalConsole"
},
...