Chrome debugger breaks at launch even without a breakpoint when started from Node.js VS Code project

Question

Every time I launch my application, the Chrome Debugger immediately stops. I don't have any breakpoints. This is a really annoying behavior.

I launch my app with node --inspect-brk and launch the debugger (once) with chrome://inspect/ and click on Open dedicated DevTools for Node.

I followed this guide and it actually states that

When we open DevTools, the source code appears in the browser which has loaded while running our application and will be paused at the first line.

I hate this, how can I turn this off?

Answer 1

Found out. The --inspect-brk switch breaks when the debugger attaches. There's a regular --inspect flag instead.