Using node-inspector with Grunt tasks

Question

Does someone used node-inspector with Grunt for application debugging? If not, Can you recommend a debugging tool for Grunt based apps?

I\'m working with nodejs for

Answer 1

Great answers here. In 2017, now you can do

node --inspect --debug-brk $(which grunt) taskName

Which prints something like.

To start debugging, open the following URL in Chrome: chrome-devtools://devtools/bundled/inspector.html?experiments=true&v8only=true&ws=127.0.0.1:9229/232652c3-f63c-4b00-8de9-17dfad5db471

Open that URL in chrome, and you're good to go!

I'm using Node 7.3.0 and I'm on Mac. You might have to follow some of the advice in other posts to get it going on Windows.