Debugging Node.js using the Chrome DevTools

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With Chrome 57+, the Node.js debugging feature is enabled by default. To start debugging, run your Node.js application [using Node 6.4+] with the --inspect flag.

Like so:

$ node --inspect <your_file>.js

Open the outputted URL or visit chrome://inspect/ to open dedicated DevTools for Node to start debugging 🙂

Debugging Node.js with Google Chrome →

Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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