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

Here is an example of launch configuration (launch.json) from Microsoft, which works with Mocha and allows using the debugger.

Also, there is a description of how to use the --debug-brk option.

Finally, here is an alternative version of how to debug code with Mocha tests using tasks.json file of VS Code and Gulp task runner.