Debugging on WSL: Breakpoint ignored because generated code not found(source map problem?)

April 27, 2018

VSCode's support for debugging Typescript-based projects is really second to none in my opinion,  so much so that i made the switch from Atom.  Atom, though, is still is my goto editor for all my Terraform & other configuration-related projects.  Back to the topic at hand, debugging a React app on my Windows 10 machine with WSL enabled, my breakpoints were not triggered due to  'missing' source maps, even though the tsconfig.json had source maps generation enabled during transpilation.  I had followed the debug configuration setup described here.

Solution:
It turns out that running the application/debugging under the WSL,  this extra property is needed to be added to launch.json in order for the source maps to be found: sourceMapPathOverrides.