Mocha breakpoints using Visual Studio Code

Question

Is it possible to add breakpoints to ones Mocha tests using Visual Studio Code?

Normally when debugging code one need to configure the launch.json, setting the prog

Answer 1

This is working fro me on a Windows 7 machine. I do have mocha installed globally, but this configuration is pointing to the project install to avoid the need for a user profile path (which btw, I tried used %USERPROFILE% variable with no success). I'm able to set breakpoints in my mocha tests now. Yay!

{
        "name": "Mocha Tests",
        "type": "node",
        "request": "launch",
        "stopOnEntry": false,
        "program": "${workspaceRoot}/node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha",
        "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
        "args": ["./test/**/*.js"],
        "runtimeExecutable": null,
        "envFile": "${workspaceRoot}/.env"
    }