It's not really a tight coupling at all in VSCode's case. Open your folder, let it generate a small launch.json in a hidden dot directory, and that's basically

It's not really a tight coupling at all in VSCode's case. Open your folder, let it generate a small launch.json in a hidden dot directory, and that's basically all there is to it. It's not like some heavy Java/C++ kind of thing where you need some massively complicated build system and project file.