Running two projects at once in Visual Studio Code

Question

I develop web project. Server is node.js application written in TypeScript. Client also written in Typescript. I need two ability:

1. to compile different projects with different compiler options in different folders.
2. to debug both projects at the same time.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

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

In your launch.json, just create a compounds section that contains the targets 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"]         }     ] }