When developing a web application we separate our application with *.web being initial server-side application and we provide a *.api application which will help us fetch/update data for client-side operations and avoid page reloads.
Here is .NET Core application I was working on which had a similar kind of ask, and I wanted to use VSCode to debug my application.
This is how we do it, first, we need to create a solution so that we keep both the API and Web project in one place
dotnet new sln -n appname
dotnet sln add src/appname/appname.web.csproj
dotnet sln add src/appname/apname.api.csproj
Open "launch.json" and Click on add configuration and add then select
.NET Core Launch (web)
No go ahead and rename to web or web-api, also add a development URL with a different than web configs the "env" property
"env": {
"ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT": "Development",
"ASPNETCORE_URLS": "https://localhost:5001"
*}
Done now just run each of the configs with debug mode and happy debugging!
For reference adding the complete launch.json
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