
The Inspect tool lets you inspect the web page’s Document Object Model (DOM), make changes to its Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), see network requests, and more, without leaving the editor. The first time you do make this choice, you will have to install an extension, but then it will just work instantly after that. Those who do choose Microsoft Edge will see a new Inspect button that launches the Edge Developers Tools directly inside of Visual Studio Code. (You can also run “Debug: Open Link” from Visual Studio Code’s command palette and then choose to debug in Chrome, Edge, or Node.js, none of which requires an extension.) Now, web developers who use Visual Studio Code and target Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge can debug their JavaScript code by pressing F5 while using the editor, or by activating the debug icon in the menu bar and selecting “Run and debug”.

This does not only mean that you can uninstall these extensions, but we also made debugging more convenient.” “Neither necessary any longer to debug as JavaScript debugging is now built-in to Visual Studio Code. “If you’re debugging JavaScript in Visual Studio Code you probably have used either the Chrome Debugger or the Microsoft Edge Debugger extension,” the Microsoft Edge Team writes in the announcement post. It has been the default JavaScript debugger in Visual Studio Code since 1.46 (we're now at v1.58) and is even being rolled out into the Visual Studio IDE.Extensibility is one of the key advantages of Visual Studio Code, but JavaScript debugging is so common that Microsoft now builds it into the code editor. That built-in experience comes via vscode-js-debug, a GitHub project described as a Debugger Adapter Protocol-based JavaScript debugger that works with Node.js, Chrome, Edge, WebView2 and VS Code extensions. The company's Edge browser development team recently announced that JavaScript developers in VS Code can now uninstall the Debugger for Chrome and/or the Debugger for Edge extensions for a new, simplified debugging experience.

Microsoft has created a built-in JavaScript debugger for Visual Studio Code, the wildly popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor.
