I'm attempting to debug electron app from visual studio 2017 (and not vscode) from scratch.
I created a console nodejs project, install and save electron. Project structure:
Content of app.js (taken from website of electron):
'use strict';
const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron')
const path = require('path')
const url = require('url')
// Keep a global reference of the window object, if you don't, the window will
// be closed automatically when the JavaScript object is garbage collected.
let win
function createWindow() {
// Create the browser window.
win = new BrowserWindow({ width: 800, height: 600 })
// and load the index.html of the app.
win.loadURL(url.format({
pathname: path.join(__dirname, 'index.html'),
protocol: 'file:',
slashes: true
}))
// Open the DevTools.
win.webContents.openDevTools()
// Emitted when the window is closed.
win.on('closed', () => {
// Dereference the window object, usually you would store windows
// in an array if your app supports multi windows, this is the time
// when you should delete the corresponding element.
win = null
})
}
// This method will be called when Electron has finished
// initialization and is ready to create browser windows.
// Some APIs can only be used after this event occurs.
app.on('ready', createWindow)
// Quit when all windows are closed.
app.on('window-all-closed', () => {
// On macOS it is common for applications and their menu bar
// to stay active until the user quits explicitly with Cmd + Q
if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
app.quit()
}
})
app.on('activate', () => {
// On macOS it's common to re-create a window in the app when the
// dock icon is clicked and there are no other windows open.
if (win === null) {
createWindow()
}
})
// In this file you can include the rest of your app's specific main process
// code. You can also put them in separate files and require them here.
And index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Hello World!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
We are using node
<script>document.write(process.versions.node)</script>,
Chrome
<script>document.write(process.versions.chrome)</script>,
and Electron
<script>document.write(process.versions.electron)</script>.
</body>
</html>
However, when I click start, the electron app starts, but the debugging process seems to detach itself. When I try to manually attach the debugger to all electron process (Debug -> Attach to process -> choose all electron processes), the break point claims not to be hit since no symbols are loaded.
This is the project property page:
Is there a step that I missed? Since debugging can be done on VSCode, I assume it can also be done in VS2017?
Many thanks.
NOTE: I did check Suppress JIT optimization and uncheck Enable just my code.
