Question: Is there a way to display colors (like in a terminal) in the Debug Console of Visual Studio Code (Version 1.10.2) when debugging node.js code?

Answer: 
My Setup, coloured steps:

I think the main attribute to the colour here is `--format=node_modules/cucumber-pretty`

```
{
// Use IntelliSense to learn about possible Node.js debug attributes.
// Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
// For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [

    {
        "type": "node",
        "request": "launch",
        "console": "integratedTerminal",
        "name": "Cucumber",
        "program": "${workspaceFolder}/tests/cucumberjs/node_modules/cucumber/bin/cucumber-js",
        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/tests/cucumberjs",
        "args": [
            "--tags=@luke",
            "--format=node_modules/cucumber-pretty"
        ]
    }
]

```

}
Here's a little utility I wrote based on the answers here (and some googling):

```js
export const colored_console = {
  /**
   * @param color red | green | yellow | blue | purple | cyan | red_bg | green_bg | blue_bg | purple_bg | cyan_bg | yellow_bg | white_bg
   * @param args things you want to log
   */
  log: function(color, ...args) {
    // adjust text color
    if      (color === 'red'      ) { console.log(`\u001b[31m`, ...args, `\u001b[0m`) }
    else if (color === 'green'    ) { console.log(`\u001b[32m`, ...args, `\u001b[0m`) }
    else if (color === 'yellow'   ) { console.log(`\u001b[33m`, ...args, `\u001b[0m`) }
    else if (color === 'blue'     ) { console.log(`\u001b[34m`, ...args, `\u001b[0m`) }
    else if (color === 'purple'   ) { console.log(`\u001b[35m`, ...args, `\u001b[0m`) }
    else if (color === 'cyan'     ) { console.log(`\u001b[36m`, ...args, `\u001b[0m`) }
    // adjust bg color
    else if (color === 'red_bg'   ) { console.log(`\u001b[41m`, ...args, `\u001b[0m`) }
    else if (color === 'blue_bg'  ) { console.log(`\u001b[44m`, ...args, `\u001b[0m`) }
    else if (color === 'purple_bg') { console.log(`\u001b[45m`, ...args, `\u001b[0m`) }
    else if (color === 'cyan_bg'  ) { console.log(`\u001b[46m`, ...args, `\u001b[0m`) }
    // adjust text and bg color for better visibility
    else if (color === 'green_bg' ) { console.log(`\u001b[42m\u001b[34m`, ...args, `\u001b[0m`) }
    else if (color === 'yellow_bg') { console.log(`\u001b[43m\u001b[34m`, ...args, `\u001b[0m`) }
    else if (color === 'white_bg' ) { console.log(`\u001b[47m\u001b[34m`, ...args, `\u001b[0m`) }
    // if you didn't specify a color, log everything with default color
    else                            { console.log(color, ...args) }
  }
}

```

...and here's some further reading I found useful:

[Google Search: ANSI colors](https://www.google.com/search?q=ANSI%20colors) (check out the image results)

[Wikipedia: ANSI escape code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code)