Launch chrome debugging

[jerpena]

Has anyone here been able to get this to work? I always get a message saying "We can't launch a browser in debug mode from here. Open this workspace in VS Code on your desktop to enable debugging."

[im-coder-lg]

There are a bunch of issues with debugging. I think this happens since code-server runs on the browser, so it can't access it since the client accessing is the browser. Possibly right, but I don't know.

[jsjoeio]

Yeah, not sure on this either. Does it work in Codespaces? There may be something we need to patch potentially to get it working.

[voscarmv]

Any updates on this? It would be awesome to be able to debug JS web apps from codespaces.

[code-asher]

No updates, I think this would need to be implemented upstream in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

[coderzniv]

Has anyone here been able to get this to work? I always get a message saying "We can't launch a browser in debug mode from here. Open this workspace in VS Code on your desktop to enable debugging."

same here

[bilogic]

I suspect this might be possible if we

1. Manually launch Chrome in debug mode chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9222 --user-data-dir=remote-debug-profile
2. Manually port forward 9222 to the server running code-server and expose it as 9222
3. Run debugger with Attach to browser

   {
                "type": "chrome",
                "request": "attach",
                "name": "Attach to browser",
                "port": 9222
            },