VScode debug EJS files of HEXO theme?

[lorezyra]

This is NOT A BUG report. Rather a request to understand how to debug EJS templates using VScode debugger.

How does one debug EJS templates in VScode?

At the moment, I'm doing this "old school" with a bunch of console.info() statements that output variable names and values. This is not a long term solution as I will need to manually remove all these lines of code from the final product.
Supposedly, there is a way to do this in VScode by adding an "attach to node" process in the debugger via the .vscode/launch.json file. I've tried to do this with the following config, but all my breakpoints show "unbound" status. Any advice is appreciated.

        {
            "type": "node",
            "name": "Hexo Theme inspector",
            "request": "attach",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/node_modules/hexo-cli/bin/hexo",
            "args": [
                "server",
                "-p 4001",
                "--debug"
            ],
            "runtimeExecutable": "node",
            "runtimeArgs": [
                "--inspect=4001"
            ],
            "processId": "${command:PickProcess}",
            "protocol": "inspector",
            "address": "127.0.0.1",
            "port": 4001,
            "restart": true,
            "sourceMaps": true,
            "outFiles": [
                "${workspaceFolder}/**/*.js"
            ],
            "localRoot": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "remoteRoot": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "console": "internalConsole"
        },

After running hexo clean && node --inspect-brk=4001 ./node_modules/hexo-cli/bin/hexo server -p 4001 and starting the debugger, I see "Debugger listening on ..." and "Debugger attached."

VScode will stop the code and step through the nodeJS files within the node_modules folder, but still doesn't stop on breakpoints set within the EJS template files. What am I missing?

Reference

• https://blog.richiebartlett.com/Work_%E4%BB%95%E4%BA%8B/Programming_%E9%96%8B%E7%99%BA/Debugging-HEXO-in-VScode/

Related

• VScode debug EJS files of HEXO theme? hexojs/hexo#5161
• https://github.com/orgs/hexojs/discussions/5157