How to set up debugging for mocha tests

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Christopher Keith edited this page Jan 24, 2023 · 7 revisions

Notes

Dependent on this code: https://github.com/usdigitalresponse/usdr-gost/pull/854
May not work in Docker environment yet.

Instructions

Install the Mocha Test Explorer extension in VSCode
Open the Testing panel
Hit the "debug" icon to debug tests. Under the hood, this will run the debug target that is listed in launch.json, which runs the relevant task in tasks.json. In turn, this runs the scripts in mocha_setup