Microsoft VS Code 1.42 is out: New debug tools for TypeScript, JavaScript, Chrome Microsoft delivers new improvements and fixes for its popular cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code.

To address how it’s harder to debug webpages, Chrome 73 adds a new Inspect tool for developers to view JavaScript logs.

Specifically, Web devs will be able to use Firefox's JavaScript debugger, DOM inspector, and CSS editor with Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.

That built-in experience comes via vscode-js-debug, a GitHub project described as a Debugger Adapter Protocol -based JavaScript debugger that works with Node.js, Chrome, Edge, WebView2 and VS Code ...

It also supports debugging client-side JavaScript in Chrome, and it can debug Node.js both locally and remotely.

The Chrome editor supports syntax highlighting for PHP, Python, Java, CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. With the updated DevTools, developers can now live edit their pre-processed CSS files as well.

Web developers find debugging web apps in the browser is getting easier, as Mozilla Firefox offers more customization control and Google Chrome introduces an in-browser code editor.

The Chrome editor supports syntax highlighting for PHP, Python, Java, CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. With the updated DevTools, developers can now live edit their pre-processed CSS files as well.