Remote debugging with custom package.json script

[hwride]

Hi,

I have got a non-standard way of Node remote debugging worked. I'd like to ask advice on getting to work the standard way if possible.

Current approach
I am running App Service with a non-standard JS file location booted from an NPM script. E.g.

{
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "node src/main/main.js"
  }
}

I have currently got remote debugging working like this:

{
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "node src/main/main.js",
    "dev_debug": "node --inspect=0.0.0.0:11111 src/main/main.js"
  }
}

Then use AZ CLI SSH + port forwarding to get the port to my local machine. This work ok.

Other attempts
I initially had the following:

{
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "node src/main/main.js",
    "dev_debug": "node --inspect=0.0.0.0:$APPSVC_TUNNEL_PORT src/main/main.js"
  }
}

But I found that $APPSVC_TUNNEL_PORT did not have a value on the App Service machine. Do I need to enable some other setting to make sure this env var is populated correctly?

Or is there some better way entirely to get remote debugging working with Node and a custom file/script?

Any advice would be much appreciated!

Thanks