debugging ts SAM based lambda functions in vscode

[thorn creek]

I'm am just starting out in node development and coming from a python background where everything just works, I'm just really confused as to how to get a SAM project going with typescript and still have the ability to step debug in vscode.

[normal ocean]

It's been a while, but I know there's a vs code extension, and guides like this: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/latest/developerguide/serverless-sam-cli-using-build-typescript.html

What have you tried so far? What's not working?

Have you used SAM with python before?

[thorn creek]

I have used SAM with python on many projects quite successfully, both with Zip and Image based projects and have been able to set up debugging without too many issues

[normal ocean]

Have you seen this? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/latest/developerguide/serverless-sam-cli-using-debugging.html

[thorn creek]

Thank you, yes I am familiar with that, unfortunately there are no guides for TypeScript and even though they have a project type for typescript now when you do sam init, the debugging is not working. Of course I could just be missing a setting somewhere, but I really can't find any good documentation for typescript specifically. Regular nodejs works I think and even the lambda one works (only the x86 image no the arm64 for some reason)

[thorn creek]

This is one of the issues I had related to image based lambdas and I believe no typescript: https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-vscode/issues/4470

[normal ocean]

Do you have source map generation enabled in tsconfig.json?

[thorn creek]

yes

I'm not married to SAM... doing more research on this, it seems like typescript is not well supported. Are there other frameworks I can use that allow for vscode debugging and support deploying to AWS lambda?