Output to Chrome console from Node.js

Question

I\'m looking for a way to output Node variables directly into the google chrome browser console. The same way a console.log() works on the client side. Somethin

Answer 1

I know it's an old question but came on top of my Google search so maybe somebody will find my answer useful.

So you can use node --inspect-brk index.js

Now, all you have to do is basically just type chrome://inspect in your Chrome address bar and click Open dedicated DevTools for Node

In DevTools, now connected to Node, you’ll have all the Chrome DevTools features you’re used to:

• Complete breakpoint debugging, stepping w/ blackboxing

• Source maps for transpiled code

• LiveEdit: JavaScript hot-swap evaluation w/ V8

• Console evaluation with ES6 feature/object support and custom object formatting

• Sampling JavaScript profiler w/ flamechart

• Heap snapshot inspection, heap allocation timeline, allocation profiling

• Asynchronous stacks for native promises

Hope that helped.