Ionic 1 was a real revolution for me as a frontend developer. Once upon a time, debugging Ionic apps was taking way too much time. Also, it's free and has a huge community making it better and better every day. If you haven't tried it, it's a really lightweight IDE and has pretty much all the features you need to develop mobile applications using Ionic 3. I'll also assume that you have already installed Visual Studio Code. If you haven't done that yet, I invite you to learn all that on the Ionic website. I'll consider you have already been playing around with Ionic 3 and managed to make it run it on a device or emulator. Putting breakpoints directly in VS Code to pause your app running directly on a device or emulator.Live reload the running app each time you make changes to your code without having to build it all over again.In this article, I will show you how to setup your development environment using VS Code to be able to debug correctly your Ionic app running on iOS or Android. Tools, tutorials, cordova, mobile, app, ionic, vscode, debug Live debug your Cordova/Ionic application with Visual Studio Code

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