Command line arguments passed to the program. Automatically stop program after launch.

Workspace relative or absolute path to the program. Name of configuration appears in the launch configuration drop down menu. ONLY 'node' and 'mono' are supported, change 'type' to switch. Add new configurations or edit existing ones. The absence of the ES6 setting, in particular, will yield errors related to unrecognized reserved keywords from the ES6 language specification. In this project, it enables ES6 support and defines CommonJS as the module system being used. Introduced in version 0.5.0 of Visual Studio Code, a few of its responsibilities are to indicate the level of ECMAScript support and to define the JavaScript module system. I’m calling it out solely for the important role it plays in the editor. If you’re following along with my GitHub repository, this file already exists. More specifically, there are 3 files with which we must become familiar. Now that we’ve addressed a few housekeeping items, how would one debug an ES6-enhanced Gulp file in Visual Studio Code? Truth be told, there is a little bit of configuration required before it will work. Finally, the Node.js and Gulp versions being used are 0.12.7 and 3.9.0, respectively.

More information on the version differences is available here. If you’re using Mac OS X or Linux, version 0.7.0 provides the equivalent feature set. To demonstrate what was described above, see my GitHub repository here for a very simple example and, if you’re expecting feature parity while following along in this blog post, Visual Studio Code 0.7.10 was used on Windows. But what does it actually mean? In short, rename your gulpfile.js file to, install the Babel NPM module at the project level ( npm install -save-dev babel), and begin leveraging ES6+ language features in your Gulp tasks. This feature is vaguely stated in the release’s change log on GitHub.

By the way, Babel is the de facto standard ES6+-to-ES5 transpiler. One of the lesser known features of Gulp is the Babel support introduced in version 3.9 of the CLI.

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