Running NodeJS project in Visual Studio Code with yarn

I ended up having the following configuration in launch.json:

{
    "type": "node",
    "request": "launch",
    "name": "Launch via Yarn",
    "runtimeExecutable": "yarn",
    "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
    "runtimeArgs": ["start:debug"],
    "port": 5858
}

And the following entry in the scripts property inside package.json:

"start:debug": "node --inspect-brk=5858 ./server/index.js",

You could include a timeout key (which defaults to 10000) and increase its value if have any prestart:debug script in your package.json which could lead to delay the launch of the actual node app.