Can't Debug in Visual Studio 2017 - visual-studio

I'm a having play with the Magic Mirror 2 using vs2017 to integrate onto my PI 3. As this is my first time with VS I can't seem to get debug to work when trying to run Magic Mirror UWP App.
These are the instructions and app I'm using GIT Hub Magic Mirror
Instructions followed:
In Visual Studio, go to Solution explorer, click on package.appxmanifest > Application and set http://webreflections.azurewebsites.net/create as the start page
On the ribbon, change the target architecture to match that of your PC (e.g. x64)
Set the debugging target to "Local machine" (changing the architecture in step 2 probably did this for you)
Click play to start the app running on your local machine
Follow the prompts on the create experience to save a profile for yourself
If anyone can explain why the program won't run (debug) I'll be extremely happy.
Thank you

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