Can Visual Studio Code be configured to launch electron

Question

Since Visual Studio Code was created using Electron, I\'m guessing that launch.json might be configured to properly launch an app using Electron. But I\'ve not figured out

Answer 1

In theory the following should work: Specify the electron.exe as the "runtimeExecutable" (since it replaces the node runtime). The electron program ("CrawlSpace_Electron\") becomes the "program". VSCode automatically passes a "--debug-brk" or "--debug" to electron.exe. In practice VSCode does not yet support this setup because the preview version of VSCode tries to verify that the "program" attribute is a file that exists on disk. But for electron the "program" must be a directory. I have created a bug on our side and will make sure it’s fixed with the next release.