# Debug Jest with VSCode

DevFeed: [Debug Jest with VSCode](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/debug-jest-with-vscode-21367.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://juri.dev/blog/2020/05/vscode-debug-jest/>)

Published: 2020-05-14T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Juri Strumpflohner](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/juri-strumpflohner.md>)

Topics: [Jest](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jest.md>), [Visual Studio Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/visual-studio-code.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debugging.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Angular](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/angular.md>)

Tags: [angular](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/angular.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugging.md>), [jest](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jest.md>), [nx](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nx.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>), [unit-tests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/unit-tests.md>), [vscode](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vscode.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to debug Jest unit tests with Visual Studio Code. It contrasts Jest's Node and JSDOM-based execution with browser-based Karma debugging and describes using a VSCode launch configuration, including in Angular CLI projects.

## Source excerpt

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