Bringing Edge's DevTools to VS Code for Debugging Web Apps

When building web apps, developers know they need to switch between the editor and the browser to test their code, and that's a lot of context switches! What if you could use the DevTools from your Chromium-based Edge browser directly in VS Code?

In this session we'll show you how we were able to bring the DevTools into the editor, and what we had to do to make this complex extension talk to editor and browser and stay accessible and easy to use at the same time.

[PrimephotoStudio]

Great video, very helpful, I like when you talk about “three contexts we work as Web Developer, ” and “things we learned building this extension.”

[craig.barker]

Really not sure why this hasn't had more love - deserves way more!

[HappyCheeryChap]

This looks really awesome! It's just a pity that vscode is still limited to a single window per open workspace/project. Frustrating when you've got 6 monitors, but can't use more than one per project, which would be especially useful for extensions like this one.

[StephenRayner]

That networking feature sounds awesome! I’m working on a react native project and react native web seems pretty good. So we are building the web version of our app with the same code base. I’m looking to leverage as many web tools as we can in this workflow. We are using expo with its react native web features.

[workingTchr]

I was hoping for an explanation on debugging browser code inside VSCode. I've tried Edge as well as Chrome and Firefox, and I just can get breakpoints in VSCode to work. Going back to the browser for the time being.

[diffusion-walker]

that's pretty cool! I think having a network console would be great! I imagine something like postman but you can actually share the cookies with the application? Is that even possible?

[moriteza]

Could you please mention the link of the extension you said