Debugger (Launch debugger and attached debugger)

[trymeouteh]

Please add the ability to debug Nushell scripts within VSCode. Would help when making large scripts to have a step debugger and be able to see the call stack, variable values, etc.

Would be great to have both an launch debugger option and an attached debugger option.

[devyn]

We don't have a debugger at all to start with, so this is something we'll have to work on. But I think there is interest in developing something like this with the Debug Adapter Protocol so that it can work with multiple editors.

[devyn]

You may want to check out the debug profile command, it is able to show you the result of elements executed within a pipeline and the exact execution steps taken, at least. Since it outputs a table it's fairly easy to analyze it however you want with the standard Nushell data manipulation commands.

[fdncred]

You can also find commands that help with debugging by running this command below.

help commands | where category == debug