Microsoft VS Code 1.42 is out: New debug tools for TypeScript, JavaScript, Chrome Microsoft delivers new improvements and fixes for its popular cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code.

Developers can now use Google Gemini within Chrome DevTools to help debug, explain and fix their web apps.

To address how it’s harder to debug webpages, Chrome 73 adds a new Inspect tool for developers to view JavaScript logs.

The Chrome editor supports syntax highlighting for PHP, Python, Java, CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. With the updated DevTools, developers can now live edit their pre-processed CSS files as well.

That built-in experience comes via vscode-js-debug, a GitHub project described as a Debugger Adapter Protocol -based JavaScript debugger that works with Node.js, Chrome, Edge, WebView2 and VS Code ...

Set breakpoints in javascript or spec files, and run/debug the new configuration config. I realize it should be possible to connect the IntelliJ debugger to the Node/Grunt process instead of running ...

The VS Code JavaScript debugger for debugging Node.js and web apps in Edge and Chrome has gained the ability to capture CPU profiles from them.

The Chrome editor supports syntax highlighting for PHP, Python, Java, CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. With the updated DevTools, developers can now live edit their pre-processed CSS files as well.