If you're using Electron 1.8 or later, you can specify the --inspect-electron
flag when running electron-forge start
, which will set the Electron --inspect
flag with the default debugger port.
electron-forge start --inspect-electron
This will allow you to open chrome://inspect
in Google Chrome and attach a debugger to the main process of your app.
Debugging your Electron main process through VS Code is ridiculously easy with Forge. Simply add this as a launch config in VSCode and you're good to go.
You need to be using Electron 1.8 or later for this launch config to work.
If you are using < 1.8 you should really be updating Electron anyway.
launch.config{"type": "node","request": "launch","name": "Electron Main","runtimeExecutable": "${workspaceFolder}/node_modules/.bin/electron-forge-vscode-nix","windows": {"runtimeExecutable": "${workspaceFolder}/node_modules/.bin/electron-forge-vscode-win.cmd"},// runtimeArgs will be passed directly to your Electron application"runtimeArgs": ["foo","bar"],"cwd": "${workspaceFolder}"}