dbuggr-node-inspector

Testing node-inspector regarding its suitability for dbuggr

setting up basic node inspector example

clone this repo
navigate to that local repo in console
install the node-inspector npm package with npm install node-inspector --save
start node-inspector using node-inspector
- this starts a server, we can connect to using the printed url
- however, no process to debug is started yet
so, to start a process using node --debug examples/index.js (which is a simple server) in a second console
- now, we can navigate our browser to http://localhost:3000/ to see a page delivered by the server application
refreshing the debug window gives us a view on local source code files
- we can also set a breakpoint in the server's request handler, and refresh the delivered page
- the page won't return as we hit the breakpoint in our code
  - from here on we can inspect the local variables like the request, and even modify it on the fly
we can also pause at the beginning of an execution using node --debug-brk examples/index.js