Live Editing Not Working (Edit and Continue)

[timwillhack]

Expected Behavior

Live Editing Working (Edit then Continue)

Actual Behavior

If I edit any code and hit save it acts strange, doesn't break in the editor where it says it is in code, I've changed some code that just outputs a string differently and that doesn't output with the changes I've made when it runs that line.

• NTVS Version:
  1.4.11025.7
• Visual Studio Version:
  15.5.4
• Node.js Version:
  8.9.4

Steps to Reproduce

1. create new node project, import one js file. save, exit reopen (just in case)
2. put a break point at the start of the file on a line with something like var nothing =0;
3. put a line after like console.log('hello')
4. run debug and wait for it to break
5. change 'hello' to 'world'
6. f10, f10 and look at the output in the window - its still 'hello'

[paulvanbrenk]

Edit and Continue is currently not supported for Node 8. I created a Feedback item on Visual Studio Developer Community, since the responsible team prefers that.

[timwillhack]

It was working in the past though no? I've seen a ton of videos talking about it and showing it working. Thank you

[paulvanbrenk]

Yeah, it worked in Node 6

[MattMinke]

Is there any desire for this feature to be fixed.