Reputation: 211
I'm building a flutter app in VsCode
When am ready to lunch my app I use Run -> start debugging in vsCose
But alternatively I can use Run -> Run without debugging
So what the difference between the two?
Upvotes: 4
Views: 4065
Reputation: 2186
Debug mode is for development. As such, the binaries are larger and slower, because they have e.g. the names of all your functions stored alongside line number information for debug tracing to work. Hot reloading is also an important feature of development or debug mode.
When you run in production mode, all the debug information is stripped away, the app loads much faster, and all debug information is elided from the binary that is produced. It is for end-use.
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 96
In Debug mode, you can pause your application at so called break points. This can help you to find bugs in your code. You can also figure out, which values your variables consist at a speficic part in your application.
You can set a break point by double clicking on the left of a line number where you want to pause your code from running (see here: debug break point example)
Upvotes: 6
Reputation: 27177
start debugging mean's in debug mode, it is best when you want to debug your app. you can set multiple break points and check what is value of that variable at particular point of time.
Run without debugging mean simple run where your break points doesn’t matter.
Moreinfo: https://flutter.dev/docs/development/tools/vs-code
Upvotes: 0