With the most recent version of node,
Typing node --inspect ajavascriptfile.js
Outputs a url for you to visit in your chrome browser, great!
(Documentation for V8 inspector here)
But how can I open that url with my terminal?
I can open the browser for files or urls with:
open -a Google\ Chrome ./path/to/file.html
or
open -a Google\ Chrome http://google.com
But trying the same for the url:
open -a Google\ Chrome chrome-devtools://devtools/remote/se...
Gives me the error:
The file /Users/samhouston/proj/chrome-devtools:/devtools/remote/se... does not exist.
How can I get chrome to open its browser to this url through my terminal?
Thanks in advance for the help
open doesn't support the chrome-devtools protocol, so it just tries to open a local file path instead. Since it doesn't exist, it gives you the error you are getting.
I looked around for another solution and I found that you can use an osascript to tell the application itself to open the URL.
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome & osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to open location "chrome-devtools://devtools/remote/serve_file/@60cd6e859b9f557d2312f5bf532f6aec5f284980/inspector.html?experiments=true&v8only=true&ws=localhost:9229/node"'