Using Gulp nodemon with the VSCode inspector - node.js

Question

I am trying to figure out the VSCode launch configuration for launching a gulp task in the inspect mode. The gulp task internally transpiles the code and runs the process via gulp-nodemon. Example is given as below:
VSCode Launch script:
{
"type": "node",
"request": "launch",
"name": "Gulp App debug",
"program": "${workspaceRoot}\\node_modules\\gulp\\bin\\gulp.js",
"args": [
"serve:dev"
],
"sourceMaps": true,
"outputCapture": "std"
}
Gulp Task:
gulp.task("serve:dev", ["release"], () => {
const through = require("through2");
const nodemon = require("gulp-nodemon");
const nodemonStream = nodemon({
script: "dist/src/app.js",
ext: "",
exec: 'node --inspect',
// nodeArgs: ['--inspect'],
watch: "none", // Disabled, will be triggered externally.
env: Object.assign(process.env, {
LOG_LEVEL: "debug",
EXEC_MODE: "dev",
NODE_PATH: "dist/src"
})
});
const watchSrc = watch("./src/**/*", vinyl => {
return compileSourcesStream(
gulp.src(vinyl.path),
gulp.dest("dist/src")
).pipe(
through.obj(function(chunk, enc, cb) {
nodemonStream.emit("restart");
cb(null, chunk);
})
);
});
In the above configuration, the VSCode launches the gulp task with the inspect mode binding to a random port. However the gulp task itself runs the nodemon with the inspect mode pointing to a different new random port. This leads to VSCode unable to track the launched process.
Any suggestion on the above setup ?