Visual Studio Code — Node Debugging — package.json, launch.json, source env.sh

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I have a env-example.sh and a env.sh. The env.sh is in the .gitignore, this way it’s never committed to anywhere. I use source env before each node start on my development environment. When we deploy to the cloud I manage the environment variable in my continuous delivery chain.

To run debugging with this environment variables in Visual Studio Code I use the npm debug script. (No I really don’t want to put environment variables in launch.json or task.json :-)…)

Any suggestions how to do this better?