<story><title>Visual Studio Code 1.8</title><url>https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miguelrochefort</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m confused. Did javascript people not use a debugger before VS Code?</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>The debugger changed how I code. So much better than any other node debug solutions.</text></item><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>VS Code is, along with Typescript and Vue, one of my favorite things to have entered my world in the past 6 months. They have been rapidly improving VSC and I am exceptionally happy with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wwalser</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know why there are so many non-answers or flat out incorrect answers to your question.&lt;p&gt;Yes, js devs use debuggers and have for years. Firebug was created and popularized for browser js 10 years ago[1]. Node.js was released 7 years ago, got a debug option one year later using &lt;i&gt;node debugger&lt;/i&gt;. It was CLI based and a bit shit. Tools which leveraged Node&amp;#x27;s debug protocol and Chrome&amp;#x27;s developer tools (node-inspector) for example were started 5 years ago[2]. Most recently some group associated (maybe on?) the Chrome team started creating a cleaner debug protocol and integrating directly with the Chromium project[3]. That&amp;#x27;s become the gold standard and is the standard way of debugging for Node 7+[4]. VSCode uses that protocol to offer debugging directly from the editor.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Firebug_(software)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Firebug_(software)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;node-inspector&amp;#x2F;node-inspector&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;node-inspector&amp;#x2F;node-inspector&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nodejs&amp;#x2F;node&amp;#x2F;pull&amp;#x2F;9028&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nodejs&amp;#x2F;node&amp;#x2F;pull&amp;#x2F;9028&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;4. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nodejs.org&amp;#x2F;api&amp;#x2F;debugger.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nodejs.org&amp;#x2F;api&amp;#x2F;debugger.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Visual Studio Code 1.8</title><url>https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miguelrochefort</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m confused. Did javascript people not use a debugger before VS Code?</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>The debugger changed how I code. So much better than any other node debug solutions.</text></item><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>VS Code is, along with Typescript and Vue, one of my favorite things to have entered my world in the past 6 months. They have been rapidly improving VSC and I am exceptionally happy with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxxxxx</author><text>I am pretty to the javascript&amp;#x2F;node world. The debugging situation is pretty pathetic in my view. Most people I know use a ton of logging like we did with C&amp;#x2F;printf 25 years ago.</text></comment>