visual studio code nodejs request 'launch': cannot launch target (reason: spawn node ENOENT)

Question

When I use visual studio code to debug a nodejs app. visual studio code tell me request \'launch\': cannot launch target (reason: spawn node ENOENT)

Answer 1

I was getting this error on a Debian Linux system. I noticed the same thing worked OK on Windows.

Next I noticed that the Node.JS executable is called node on Windows but on Debian (and on Debian-based systems such as Ubuntu) it's called nodejs. So I created an alias - from a root terminal, I ran

ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/local/bin/node

and this solved the problem.