How can I debug typescript in vscode directly without running any tsc tasks?

[proper hamlet]

according to vscode doc,
Debugging typescript need an preLaunchTask which runs tsc in the launch.json config, but this results in a new js file, which I don't want.

Is there any ways to do it that are more direct?
like npm packages: tsx, ts-node, we can run ts directly in terminal, and we can't run them directly in vscode

Please help.

[runic mauve]

Get Deno 🙂

single binary, then run deno run file.ts in the terminal

[brave whale]

debugging with tsx works

{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "tsx",
      "type": "node",
      "request": "launch",
      "program": "${workspaceFolder}/src/index.ts",
      "runtimeExecutable": "tsx",
      "console": "integratedTerminal",
      "skipFiles": [
        "<node_internals>/**",
        "${workspaceFolder}/node_modules/**",
      ],
    }
  ]
}

[proper hamlet]

!close

[quartz terrace]

I do love deno, and wish I can still work on that. But my project requires using Node

[quartz terrace]

would this be the quick way to debug? It seems slow to me

[hollow blaze]

Slow in what sense?