what's the least resistance path to debugging mocha tests?

Question

Edit Nov 2016: Node now has a built in debugger that you can start with --inspect. This answer explains it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39901169/30946.

Answer 1

With the latest versions of Mocha and node-inspector, this has been working great for me:

$ node-debug ./node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha

It loads up the local Mocha executable as the debugged process, stopping on the first line for you to set up your breakpoints.