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

Update for 2020:

Do what the other guides state and setup your project with a launch.json file.

The problem I had was that the supposed file "program": "${workspaceRoot}/node_modules/.bin/sls" threw an error.

I changed it to "${workspaceRoot}/node_modules/serverless/bin/serverless" and it worked. Here's the full file:

.vscode/launch.json:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Serverless debug",
            "program": "${workspaceRoot}/node_modules/serverless/bin/serverless",
            "args": [
                "invoke",
                "local",
                "-f",
                "hello",
                "--data",
                "{}"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Be aware that the argument hello is the name of the function I want to debug. I think the intended use case must be that you change that file name for whatever function you want to invoke. Maybe someone could create a VSCode plugin to do this?