Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a lightweight, open-source code editor and available on Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows. One of the key features of Visual Studio Code is its great debugging support for Node.js (JavaScript and TypeScript) and another feature is to run Tasks(Grunt, Gulp, MSBuild…etc.) from the IDE. If you are new to VSCode, I would recommend to see following video which shows how to debug Node.js app, put break-point and use watch window, use environment variable in Visual Studio Code editor: