vscode debug ES6 application

Question

I have VSCode 0.5.0. I set the compilerOptions flag to \"ES6\" and the editor started recognizing my ES6 code as correct. I have babel installed. My Mocha tests use the bab

Answer 1

Assuming you have babel-cli installed as a local module in your project the following should work.

launch.json

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Launch",
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${workspaceRoot}/node_modules/babel-cli/bin/babel-node.js",
            "stopOnEntry": false,
            "args": [
                "${workspaceRoot}/server.js"
            ],
...