How do I debug Node.js applications?

Question

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.inspe         


        

Answer 1

I wrote a different approach to debug Node.js code which is stable and is extremely simple. It is available at https://github.com/s-a/iron-node.

An opensource cross-platform visual debugger.

Installation:

npm install iron-node -g;

Debug:

iron-node yourscript.js;