



This is a full REPL console, and you can just type in any JavaScript to try out, for example 2+3 or ‘log’.repeat(20) You get all the information about the body element of the current document. Try it out by using $(‘body’) in the Debug Console. You also have access to all the convenience methods, like $ for document.querySelector. You can use the Debug Console to do anything you normally do in the Console of the browser tools. Visual Studio Code now opens a browser window for you and you can see the console.log message from the demo code in the Debug Console. Step 5: Select the “Run and Debug” icon and press the “Run and Debug” button Step 3: Select New File, call it index.html Step 2: Start Visual Studio Code, choose “open” – select that folder Step 1: Create a folder and call it consoledebug And it even works without a local server. In the video I use a project I have open with a launch.json file already defined, which means it opens the correct URL for you when you start debugging.

I just published a “TikTok” style video on the official Visual Studio Code channel explaining this and – after lots of criticism for the quality of the video (lads, this is on purpose!) – people had more questions, so here goes. Using the new in-built JavaScript debugger in Visual Studio code you can use the browser developer tools Console right inside the editor.
