Meteor: Debug on server side
debugging, meteor, server-side
Solution
In Meteor 0.5.4 this has become a lot easier:
First run the following commands from the terminal:
npm install -g node-inspector
node-inspector &
export NODE_OPTIONS='--debug-brk'
meteor
And then open `http://localhost:8080` in your browser to view the node-inspector console.
Update
Since Meteor 1.0 you can just type
meteor debug
which is essentially a shortcut for the above commands, and then launch node inspector in your browser as mentioned.
Update
In Meteor 1.0.2 a console or shell has been added. It may come in handy to output variables and run commands on the server:
meteor shell
Problem
Does anyone know a good method to debug server side code? I tried enable Node.js debug then use node-inspector but it does not show any of my code. I end up using console.log but this is very inefficient. Update: I found the following procedure works on my Linux machine: When you run Meteor, it will spawn two processes process1: /usr/lib/meteor/bin/node /usr/lib/meteor/app/meteor/meteor.js process2: /usr/lib/meteor/bin/node /home/paul/codes/bbtest_code/bbtest02/.meteor/local/build/main.js --keepalive You need to send kill -s USR1 on process2 Run node-inspector and you can see your server code On my first try, I modify the last line on meteor startup script in /usr/lib/meteor/bin/meteor to ``` exec "$DEV_BUNDLE/bin/node" $NODE_DEBUG "$METEOR" "$@" ``` and run `NODE_DEBUG=--debug meteor` on command prompt. This only put --debug flag on process1 so I only see meteor files on node-inspector and could not find my code. Can someone check this on Windows and Mac machine?