How do I debug Node.js applications?

debugging, google-chrome-devtools, javascript, node.js

Solution

The V8 debugger released as part of the Google Chrome Developer Tools can be used to debug Node.js scripts. A detailed explanation of how this works can be found in the Node.js GitHub wiki.

Problem

How do I debug a Node.js server application? Right now I'm mostly using alert debugging with print statements like this: ``` sys.puts(sys.inspect(someVariable)); ``` There must be a better way to debug. I know that Google Chrome has a command-line debugger. Is this debugger available for Node.js as well?

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