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Copper Contributor

Oct 29, 2018

Debugging SPFX Web Part With VS Code Issue.

Hi there, I'm new to SPFX development and I'm attempting to debug using VS Code, but it's not working. I'm following the MS documentation as well as the PnP guidance. Here's the steps I'm following a...

Phil Harding

Copper Contributor

Oct 30, 2018

The problem seems to be that the "gulp serve --nobrowser" task doesn't create the contents of the "workbench-packages" folder, like the "gulp serve" task does.

Dave Walker

Copper Contributor

Oct 30, 2018

Hi Phil, so I tried "gulp serve" from the terminal instead of "gulp server --nobrowser" so that the packages load. Gulp serve opens a workbench instance which I close. I then start the debugger which brings up a new workbench instance. I drop the web part on the page and hit refresh, but the break point doesn't activate. Any ideas?

Dave

Phil Harding
Copper Contributor
Oct 30, 2018
Exactly what I tried with the same results, also tried the same steps as yourself :-(
- Dave Walker
  Copper Contributor
  Oct 30, 2018
  Thanks for confirming Phil. I've tried this in a couple of environments with the same results. It's clear now that they've changed something without updating the documentation.
  - Phil Harding
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 27, 2018
    See Andrew Connells reply for the fix to this issue;
    https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-docs/issues/2831#issuecomment-441995248