IDE Configuration for Debugging

General Steps

Make sure you have ts-node installed. This allows you to debug files from source instead of having to pre-compile everything to JavaScript. Mocha is currently setup to test directly from typescript files.

npm install -g ts-node

Notes

At a high level get node and Mocha to run typescript files. After that debugging is easy.

Make Commands

The project contains a Makefile. To see the commands issues by make you can use the dry-run flag. You can safely run this at anytime, and it is useful to verify the correct configuration.

make -n test

Mocha Commands

Mocha Command Line Reference

Webstorm (IntelliJ)

In the main navigation click Run followed by Edit Configurations

• Set Environment Variables TS_NODE_PROJECT=./test/tsconfig.json
• Set User Interface to tdd
• Set Mocha Options to --require ts-node/register -r tsconfig-paths/register --extension ts

In the top Right Corner, select the checkbox Store as Project File. To save configurations.

Visual Studio

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Configuration for VS is stored in .vscode/launch.json, and Mocha args are stored in the args[] array. The tsconfig is set with an environment variable. This StackOverflow answer suggests the following.

"env": {
    "TS_NODE_PROJECT": "${workspaceFolder}/tsconfig.json" // Or whatever path you have
}