Remotely debugging my node app that is hosted on AWS

Question

I would like to connect to my node server running in debug mode on AWS (node --debug app.js) from my development machine, and be able to debug my app remotely.

Two quest

Answer 1

You can use node --inspect too in your remote machine.

1. Start your node with node --inspect myapp.js
2. Then locally ssh -L 9229:127.0.0.1:9229 myuser@myserver -N
3. Search for an string like this at the log head and copy it chrome-devtools://devtools/remote/serve_file/@60cd6e859b9ff284980/inspector.html?experiments=true&v8only=true&ws=127.0.0.1:9229/bef2ae68
4. Paste it in your chrome browser

Enjoy :)

If you are using pm2 just add this on your ecosystem.js

"apps": [{
    "name": "myapp",
    "script": "index.js",
    "node_args": ["--inspect"],
...