Running two projects at once in Visual Studio code

Question

I am developing a web project. Server is a node.js application written in TypeScript. The client is also written in TypeScript. I need two options:

• to compile various projects with different compiler options in different folders.
• to debug both projects simultaneously.

How can i do this?

Answer 1

See our multitask debugging documentation: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/debugging#_multitarget-debugging

In launch.jsonjust create a section compoundscontaining the goals you want to debug

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Server",
            "program": "${workspaceRoot}/server.js",
            "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}"
        },
        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Client",
            "program": "${workspaceRoot}/client.js",
            "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}"
        }
    ],
    "compounds": [
        {
            "name": "Server/Client",
            "configurations": ["Server", "Client"]
        }
    ]
}