Debugging current file in VS Code
Change to:
"program": "${file}"
For reference this is the full launch.json
{
"launch": {
"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [
{
"name": "Node.js - Debug Current File",
"type": "node",
"request": "launch",
"program": "${file}"
}
]
}
}
For a single file, you can skip the launch.json file entirely. Just click the green arrow in the debugger panel and choose Node as your environment.
From here.