# Debug node-red-contrib-ical-events

First of all, we have to install Node-RED locally as a global package
```
npm i -g node-red
```
run node-red once and shutdown it after a few seconds, in order to generate a .node-red folder in your $HOME folder

node-red

create a launch.json under ~/.node-red/.vscode

launch_json

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "attach",
            "name": "Attach to node-red",
            "port": 9229,
            "trace": true,
            "sourceMaps": true,
            "outFiles": ["/Users/benjamin/.node-red/node_modules/node-red-contrib-ical-events/dist/**/*.js"]
        }
    ]
}

Now clone node-red-contrib-ical-events and install the dependencies.

cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/naimo84/node-red-contrib-ical-events
npm i

Connect node-red-contrib-ical-events via npm install to the $HOME/.node-red folder

cd $HOME/.node-red
npm install $HOME/node-red-contrib-ical-events

The package.json under $HOME/.node-red should now look like the following:

{
    "name": "node-red-project",
    "description": "A Node-RED Project",
    "version": "0.0.1",
    "private": true,
    "dependencies": {
        "node-red-contrib-ical-events": "file:../node-red-contrib-ical-events"
    }
}

Now it's really important to open the correct folder as you can see under topic
create launch.json.

I'm doing this wrong after so many years of Node-RED module coding 😉
The correct folder to get a breakpoint into the module is:
```
$HOME/.node-red/node_modules/node-red-contrib-ical-events
```

Run the dev task, which opens a remote debugging port 9229

cd $HOME/.node-red/node_modules/node-red-contrib-ical-events
npm run dev

Attach to node-red under VS Code's "Run and Debug"
Now open http://localhost:1880 (opens new window) and add a node, trigger it and happy debugging ;)

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