Cannot find runtime 'node' on PATH - Visual Studio Code and Node.js

Question

With a downloaded and installed version of Visual Studio Code 1.2.1, and a 64bit version of node.exe msi placed in my working directory (I am assuming that is correct), how do we add node and npm command line tools to be on our PATH? I am confused in understanding that statement. Where and how do we implement that? I am quoting this requirement directly from the top of this resource page - https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/runtimes/nodejs

As a result of my current situation, I set a break-point in an app.js file. And when I hit F5, it tells me...

Cannot find runtime 'node' on PATH  

I am completely lost in understanding and fixing this issue in Visual Studio Code.

Answer 1

On OSX and VSCode 1.56.2 all I had to do was to close and restart VSCode and the problem went away.

Answer 2

first run below commands as super user sudo code . --user-data-dir='.' it will open the visual code studio import the folder of your project and set the launch.json as below

{     "version": "0.2.0",     "configurations": [         {             "type": "node",             "request": "launch",             "name": "Launch Program",             "program": "${workspaceFolder}/app/release/web.js",             "outFiles": [                 "${workspaceFolder}/**/*.js"             ],             "runtimeExecutable": "/root/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.4/bin/node"         }     ] } 

path of runtimeExecutable will be output of "which node" command.

Run the server in debug mode cheers