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Using node-inspector with Grunt tasks

Does someone used node-inspector with Grunt for application debugging? If not, Can you recommend a debugging tool for Grunt based apps?

I'm working with nodejs for a server side app and I have Grunt to use separated tasks (this is because users can execute tasks separately).

Solution

  • To run grunt in debug, you need to pass the grunt script to node explicitly:

    node-debug $(which grunt) task

    and put a debugger; line in your task. node-inspector will then open a browser with debugging tools.

    Edit 28 Feb 2014

    node-inspector has added the command node-debug, which launches node in a --debug state and opens the browser to the node-inspector page, stopping when it hits the first debugger line or set breakpoint.

    Edit 30 January 2015

    On Windows, things are a touch more complicated. See the answer from @e.gluhotorenko for instructions.