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

This is my configuration and it works great! I am using the VSCode debugging, mocha 6.1.4, node: v8.16.0, and Babel version 6.

Make sure to load babel-register and babel-polyfill in runtimeArgs, or else you will get regeneratorRuntime is not defined!

{
    "type": "node",
    "request": "launch",
    "name": "Mocha test debug",
    "runtimeExecutable": "${workspaceRoot}/node_modules/.bin/mocha",
    "console": "integratedTerminal",
    "internalConsoleOptions": "neverOpen",
    "protocol": "inspector",
    "stopOnEntry": false,
    "runtimeArgs": [
        "--nolazy",
        "--require",
        "babel-register",
        "--require",
        "babel-polyfill",
        "tests/*.js"
    ],
    "sourceMaps": true
}