Azure Functions local HTTP trigger issue and solution - node.js

Question

Just wanted to post the steps I took after running into the following error when trying to run an Azure Function HTTP Trigger locally in VS Code:
"[error] Incompatible Node.js version. The version you are using is v13.1.0,
but the runtime requires an LTS-covered major version. LTS-covered versions
have an even major version number (8.x, 10.x, etc.) as per
https://github.com/nodejs/Release#release-plan. For deployed code, change
WEBSITENODEDEFAULT_VERSION to '~10' in App Settings. Locally, install or
switch to a supported node version (make sure to quit and restart your code
editor to pick up the changes)."

Answer 1

(1.) install NVM. Instructions here: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#installing-and-updating
(2.) install NVS. Instructions here: https://github.com/jasongin/nvs
(3.) in your VS code terminal, run:
nvs add 12.16.1
nvs use node/12.16.1/x64
(4.) edit your launch.json to the following:
{
"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [
{
"name": "Attach to Node Functions",
"type": "node",
"request": "attach",
"port": 5555,
"preLaunchTask": "func: host start"
}
],
"node": {
"runtimeVersion": "12.16.1"
}
}
(5.) in your VS code terminal, run:
func start