Debugging

Debugging on the Command Line
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 --inspectflag 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 with VS Code
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}"
}

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