Cannot debug serverless application in Visual Studio Code

Question

I have tried to debug serverless application developed using serverless framework in VS code. I have followed this article.

But when I trying to debug the code I\'m

Answer 1

I attempted to follow the same article, and experienced the same error. Adding outFiles didn't help, although it did change my error message to:

Cannot launch program 'd:\\node_modules\.bin\sls' because corresponding JavaScript cannot be found.

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I can't explain why VSCode has a problem with the executable in node_modules/.bin, but if I point at node_modules/serverless/bin instead, things work as expected:

"program": "${workspaceFolder}\\node_modules\\serverless\\bin\\serverless",

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Here is my full working configuration, where my test event JSON exists in sample-event.json in the project root:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Debug Lambda",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/node_modules/serverless/bin/serverless",
            "args": [
                "invoke",
                "local",
                "-f",
                "",
                "--data",
                "{}" // You can use this argument to pass data to the function to help with the debug
            ]
        }
    ]
}

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Using Serverless ^1.26.1, Node 8.9.4 LTS, VSCode 1.20.1