Now that VSCode has a notebook mode, you can execute a cell in debug mode and it will trigger break points you created in the referenced package, giving you the

Now that VSCode has a notebook mode, you can execute a cell in debug mode and it will trigger break points you created in the referenced package, giving you the full debugger experience. I really like it, but do not know how it compares to pycharm. I just recently settled on doing this workflow (start notebook to test some new code) and find it to be super productive.