What's the right way to enable the node debugger with mocha's --debug-brk switch?

Question

I have some debugger statements in my module under test and want to run mocha with --debug-brk set and hit my breakpoint so that I can inspect the state of my module. Unfort

Answer 1

I was able to get this to work using node-inspector. I run my test like you show in one shell:

mocha --debug-brk mocha/test.js

and then run node-inspector in a second shell:

node-inspector

Bringing up the URL that node-inspector spits out in a browser allows me to debug with the web inspector.

http://127.0.0.1:8080/debug?port=5858