Debugging Express with node-inspector
Debugging the Express part of your MEAN application can be a complicated task. Fortunately, there is a great tool that solves this issue called node-inspector. Node-inspector is a debugging tool for Node.js applications that use the Blink (a WebKit Fork) Developer Tools. In fact, developers using Google's Chrome browser will notice that node-inspector's interface is very similar to the Chrome Developer Tools' interface. Node-inspector supports some pretty powerful debugging features:
- Source code files navigation
- Breakpoints manipulation
- Stepping over, stepping in, stepping out, and resuming execution
- Variable and properties inspection
- Live code editing
When running node-inspector, it will create a new web server ...
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