Debugging is one of the most critical aspects of software development. As you probably know, JavaScript programmers really do have their task cut out for them due to the nature of this language. But at the same time, it’s not something that can’t be made much easier with some good tools. Let’s see how you can debug Node, make some Node.js debugging with VS Code and make your life much easier in the process.

One of the main tasks of the programmer is finding and correcting errors in their code. This is called debugging. The more you code, the more likely it is that you’re going to have some debugging to do. It’s only natural and not a cause for share or concern. After all:

“It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes” – Nikola Tesla

Debugging is all about finding the cause of the error quickly and eliminating it. Unfortunately, in the world of JavaScript, this activity is almost inseparably tied to the function console.log().

It’s worth knowing that our integrated development environment (IDE) of choice is equipped with a variety of tools that can speed up and simplify debugging.

In this article, I’m going to go over the most helpful features of Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that you can use to debug Node, more specifically to debug the code of a simple API written with Node.js based on vanilla JavaScript. As  Node.js is getting more and more new features and finds new uses, the issue of Node.js debugging will become even bigger.

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