Attach visual studio debugger to electron app

Question

I\'m attempting to debug electron app from visual studio 2017 (and not vscode) from scratch.

I created a console nodejs project, install and save electron. Project s

Answer 1

This is actually very easy to do.

1. Configure your app in Visual Studio like this:

2. Start your app. Electron will start on a separate terminal but Visual Studio won't be attached to it.

3. Go to Debug > Attach to process... and enter the Webkit websocket connection type and http://127.0.0.1:5858 as the target.

4. Your breakpoints are now enabled.