


If you are not able to use Visual Studio Command Prompt, you can use the “Task Runner Explorer” by adding a task and running it in this way: "check": "node -v & npm -v"Īnother way is using C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Web\External\” on your Window’s. Now, use Visual Studio Command Prompt that is also called Visual Studio plugin. Secondly, see which Node/Npm version Visual Studio you are using. If the installed version of npm is not the latest one, you can update it using the syntax code: npm -g (Note: The -g flag is used to update npm globally.) Write the command line to update Node.js npm: “node -v” or “npm -v” simply type the one you want to check.

First, see a couple of useful tricks to check which Node.js npm version you have installed: To get started in this walkthrough, this post captures the steps on how to update Node.js in Visual Studio, Windows/macOS, and NPM. In turn, you will get advanced debugging, intelligent coding with the powerful IntelliSense engine, interactive window, quick tracking of performance issues, unit testing, typescript integration, source control, cloud integration, and npm integration. Breakpoint Optionsīreakpoints can be toggled by clicking on the editor margin of the current line, if it is a right mouse click an options menu will appear.I hope that you will find Node version 12 new capabilities compelling and soon you will upgrade your app to it. In this demo project, I will use the following configuration. There are a lot of Launch.json attributes, you can find their detailed descriptions in the VS Code official documentation. We can start the app in debug mode to get the debugging server, and then connect to the VS Code debugger through the program port, while the launch helps us do all this, directly helping us start the app in debug mode, so the launch mode can meet most usage scenarios. The attach mode needs to prepare a debugging server in advance. In the launch.json configuration file, the debugging modes can be divided into two core modes, Attach and Launch. vscodefolder and added the launch.json file to your workspace. Next, we selected Node.js, VS Code automatically generated the corresponding configuration, go back to the File Explorer view you’ll see that VS Code has created a. Launch Configurationsįirst, you can see I created a launch configuration file in the gif, it’s useful because it allows you to configure and save debugging setup details. You can see that we can easily start the debugger in VS Code, Let me introduce it in detail.
