So I’m learning how to be a front end web developer and the site I’m learning on has me making a portfolio project of an app. However I’m having a problem that I hadn’t run into before in VS. I finished coding my app and I’m ready for debugging, however when I try I get: An error occurred while launching the application. Seems to be that you are trying to debug from within directory that is not a React Native project root. If so, please, follow these instructions: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-react-native#customization (error code 604) (error code 303)
I tried moving the launch json into the app folder but it stops recognizing it as a debug option.
I’ve also tried just using the command terminal but it doesn’t recognize npm as a command so I’m not sure what to do with that.

my launch.json:

{
   
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Debug Windows",
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "type": "reactnative",
            "request": "launch",
            "platform": "windows"
        }
    ]
}

I also have a manifest.json and a package.json that I grabbed directly from the sample project:

{
  "short_name": "React App",
  "name": "Create React App Sample",
  "icons": [
    {
      "src": "favicon.ico",
      "sizes": "192x192",
      "type": "image/png"
    }
  ],
  "start_url": "./index.html",
  "display": "standalone",
  "theme_color": "#000000",
  "background_color": "#ffffff"
}

{
  "name": "jammming",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "^18.2.0",
    "react-dom": "^18.2.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "react-scripts": "5.0.1"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",
    "test": "react-scripts test --env=jsdom",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
  },
  "browserslist": [
    ">0.2%",
    "not dead",
    "not ie <= 11",
    "not op_mini all"
  ]
}

(there’s a debug button above scripts that when pressed throws the aforementioned npm error)
here’s a screenshot of my file layout:
my file layout in visual studio code
Let me know if you need anything else to help me out.