..•2y ago

How can I reattach a debugger after disconnecting?

I want to be able to start deno from a command line, but be able to attach to it from VSCode. I actually have that much working, but there is one issue - if I disconnect the debugger, I cannot reattach it. I am running like so: deno run --inspect-wait .\first_steps.ts I am attaching with this configuration:

{
            "request": "attach",
            "name": "Attach To Running Program",
            "type": "node",
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "port": 9229,
        }

{
            "request": "attach",
            "name": "Attach To Running Program",
            "type": "node",
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "port": 9229,
        }

The source code is a couple of loops that each take a few seconds to execute. After hitting a breakpoint in the first loop, I disconnect. I then immediately try to reconnect, but it seems the program ignores the attempt until it finishes running. Is there anything I can do differently to be able to reattach the debugger?

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..OP•2y ago

This understandably doesn't work with a blocking loop; a loop such as that here seems to work, though: https://examples.deno.land/tcp-listener