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How do I get node-inspector to run with foreman and nodemon?

I have my heroku config vars in my .env file, so I have to use foreman to run my app locally. I need to debug using node-inspector, and I would like to not have to restart my app manually, so I would also like to use nodemon.

How do I use nodemon, node-inspector and foreman together?

Solution

  • It's simple really, just chain them all together in one command.

    # start node-inspector in the background
$ node-inspector &

# make nodemon execute foreman with debugging options enabled for app.js with
## either
$ nodemon --exec "foreman run node --debug-brk app.js"
## or
$ nodemon --exec "foreman run node --debug app.js"

    And you're done!