title: Visual Studio Node.js Express 4 Application Server Quits
body: <p>Googling didn't get me vary far with this so I wanted to make a post about it. </p>
  
  <p>In Visual Studio 2017 if you create a new Node.js Express 4 Application project, build it and debug it then the Node.js server will just crash and exit before you can read any output from the CMD window that it was running in. </p>
  
  <p>Checking the log file <code>C:\Users\matt\AppData\Local\Temp\vscode-node-debug2.txt</code> yielded no usable information for me. What was causing it to crash and how can it be fixed?</p>