Recommended VSCode debug launch.json

gregwhitworth

2 months ago

So I'm hitting some server issues and I'd really like to try and debug what is happening in Payload. I've leveraged the default Node JS launch.js which is:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Launch Program",
            "skipFiles": [
                "<node_internals>/**"
            ],
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}\\src\\server.ts",
            "outFiles": [
                "${workspaceFolder}/**/*.js"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

But I get the following error when I run the debugger:

Process exited with code 1
Uncaught SyntaxError C:\Users\gregw\git\user-settings\src\server.ts:1
import express from 'express'
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module
    at compileFunction (vm:352:18)
    at wrapSafe (internal/modules/cjs/loader:1032:15)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader:1067:27)
    at Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader:1155:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
    at Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
    at executeUserEntryPoint (internal/modules/run_main:77:12)
    at <anonymous> (internal/main/run_main_module:17:47)

TIA

Jarrod

Payload Team

last month

Hey @gregwhitworth where did you find that snippet? What exactly are you attempting to debug?

Here is a snippet we use to launch test directories:

{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "type": "node",
      "request": "launch",
      "name": "Launch Program",
      "runtimeArgs": [
        "-r",
        "ts-node/register"
      ],
      "args": [
        "${workspaceFolder}/test/dev.ts",
        "fields"
      ]
    },
  ]
}

Can also be found here:

https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/master/.vscode/launch.json

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