Can I Profile NodeJS Applications Using Visual Studio Code?
Answer : There is no plugin/support that I am aware of for initiating the profiling, or heap dumps, etc that are available in Chrome's Dev Tools. But, the VS Code debugger can work alongside the dev tools debugger. Start from VS Code, and start debugging as you would. Then open dev tools from any tab in the Chrome/Chromium browser, and look for the green icon indicating a node.js debugging process is running ( manually done via node --inspect ): . Click this green icon and you'll have many of the browser dev tools features for debugging the node.js process, specifically the memory and profiler tabs. Visual Studio Code 1.45 (April 2020) should help, as it integrates Javascript debugging capabilities, including profiling: New JavaScript debugger This month we've continued making progress on our new JavaScript debugger. It's installed by default on Insiders, and can be installed from the Marketplace in VS Code Stable. You can start using it with your e...