Support a debug terminal like JS Debug

[sbatten]

The JavaScript debugger has a JavaScript Debug Terminal which you can open in the integrated terminal panel. From there, you can run arbitrary commands and if they execute your TS/JS files you can set breakpoints without ever having to set up a launch config.

This is useful for when the execution of your files is wrapped by other commands. e.g. you might a separate bash script to run a series of python files in different ways. Instead of creating a launch config for each file, you can just execute the bash script in the debug terminal. Additionally, you may want to change the arguments that you pass to the script multiple times while debugging. Leveraging the native terminal history is nice here. Lastly, you might just not want a launch config. They seem somewhat permanent, and you might just want this while you are writing a script.

[Alex-EEE]

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[eleanorjboyd]

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