Everything You Need to Know about Debugging in VSCode

This video is a quick guide to debugging Python scripts in VSCode. I’ll cover the basics of the VSCode debugger and show you how to use it to fix your code easily.

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🔖 Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:27 Setup
1:43 Breakpoints
3:53 Call stack
4:13 Variables
5:55 Watch
6:44 Outro

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[cstephens]

A whole series on debugging would be awesome. Seriously.

[eduardolpz]

This is great.
A debug FastAPI video would be great too.
Thank you for all your work.

[ShanilPanara]

I've coded with VSCode for years now but never known how to use the debugger! Looks really powerful and I guess it forces you to code a little more carefully as well

Gonna try to incorporate it in my dev workflow soon and see what difference it makes!

Thanks Arjan

[wexwexexort]

I would love to see a debugging video for FastAPI and another video similar to this one but for pycharm.

[DagarCoH]

Did not know about the conditional break points. That is so useful!

[dilliboy]

This is one of the most beautiful videos I have ever watched on debugging.

[kreglfromworld]

One thing missing that I find myself using a lot is the debugger console. Any time I'm unsure of how exactly to do something I use a breakpoint, run my ideas at that point through the debugger console to see what works, and implement it in code.

[thefanboy]

Learning with you makes my brain tingles. It's like ASMR but with knowledge instead of sensitive stimuli.

[chaseadal]

Fastapi debugging! Yes please! Fastapi with docker would be great too.

[apsomething]

Would be great to see more advanced video about debugging!

[mahamadinikiema]

Great work.
A whole series of best practices for debugging with VSCode would be great.
Thanks.

[PouriyaJamshidi]

Great video
This is a topic that is almost never taught

[mitchedmunds]

Great video! I think that it would have been useful to cover the debug console and also VS Code's testing pane where you can collect tests and then debug individual tests. It may have also been worth mentioning that you can Debug cells in the built-in Jupyter notebooks too - but these would be good topics for a follow up!

[meqdaddev]

Thanks for the precise and high quality content.
Keep coding dear Arjan.

[simeidoblinski]

Thank you very much! A video expanding on debugging a FastAPI application would be great!

[pqhhyzd]

Yes, we need separate video about debugging a FastAPI application

[diouimk]

This video is super helpful!! I'd like to request a detailed tutorial video or series for debugging fastapi!!!

[marcelhulsberg]

great video! I also frequently use the tebugging terminal (Ctrl+Shift+Y), where you can calculate expressions (similar to the watch section), but can also create and manipulate variables etc.

the debugger also works great with pytest

[Chaplainelmo]

Great ... enabled me to add several new tips to my own hard learned uses so far. VS Code formerly had a great "Preview" extension that visualized the call stack and allowed stepwise execution and display of function calls, returns, etc. I found that to also be a great assist in debugging as well.

[virtualraider]

debugging a Flask application would also be incredibly useful. A problem with most YouTube debugging videos is that they show how to work on simple scripts, but debugging an app running on a framework is way more complicated 😅