VS Code: “Breakpoint ignored because generated code not found” error

Question

I have looked everywhere and I still have issue debugging TypeScript inside VS Code. I have read this thread but still I am not able to hit my breakpoints placed inside a Ty

Answer 1

None of the other answers worked for me.

I then realised the program attribute in my launch.json was pointing to the .js file, but my project is a TypeScript project.

I changed it to point to the TypeScript (.ts) file, and set the outFiles attribute to point to where the compiled code lives:

{
    "type": "node",
    "request": "launch",
    "name": "Launch Program",
    "program": "${workspaceRoot}/src/server/Server.ts",
    "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
    "outFiles": ["${workspaceRoot}/dist/**/*.js"]
}

This solved the issue for me!