Debugger does not start in VSCode for Django

September 25, 2022

I’m trying to debug my Django project, but whenever I hit the play button on the run and debug window in VSCode, it thinks for a second, and then completely stops. My project runs completely fine when I run it with the "runserver" command.

I’ve tried restarting VSCode, and restarting my computer.

here is my launch.json file

{
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    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Python: Django",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}\\manage.py",
            "args": [
                "runserver",
                "9000"
            ],
            "django": true
        }
    ]
}