run vscode with custom version of node.js

vscode-nvm.md

To use VSCode debugger with a custom version of Node.js, we can use node.js bash script to run the correct version using nvm.

node.sh

#!/bin/bash

[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm

nvm run $*

chmod +x node.sh

.nvmrc

4

launch.json

{
    "type": "node",
    "request": "launch",
    "name": "Launch program",
    "program": "${workspaceRoot}/index",
    "runtimeExecutable": "${workspaceRoot}/node.sh",
    "protocol": "legacy"
}

this is enough if NVM_DIR is exported, which it should be. make sure to specify legacy protocol for Node 4.