visual studio code nodejs request 'launch': cannot launch target (reason: spawn node ENOENT)

Question

When I use visual studio code to debug a nodejs app. visual studio code tell me request 'launch': cannot launch target (reason: spawn node ENOENT)

My nodejs version is 4.2.4

Answer 1

Managed to get past this when running on Windows by specifying npm.cmd instead of npm in the VS code debug configuration like so

"runtimeExecutable": "npm.cmd",

Answer 2

Some discussions are posted in this here

How do I debug "Error: spawn ENOENT" on node.js?

Especially, the following points should be checked

• Ensure the environment variable PATH is set
• PATHEXT environment variable that can cause certain calls to spawn to not work on Windows.