Work in progress. We're be extracting the debugger logic we made for remote debugging our robots into a reusable module. Supported:
Install debugger
npm install -g debugger
To Debug A script
debugger your-script.js
The Debugger App should now be open with devtools ready to go. NOTE: Right now it will set a breakpoint on the first line, there's a todo to make configure this with an command line argument
- [ ] Don't set a break point on startup, instead make it --debug-brk an option
- [ ] Support debugging electron apps
- [ ] Support remote debugging
- [ ] Of node apps
- [ ] Of Electron apps
- [ ] Add cross platform shortcuts for reload and dev tools toggle as in [electron-debug](https://www.npmjs.com/package/electron-debug)
- [ ] Make sure menu shows proper platform shortcut
- [ ] Checkout [Chrome DevTools App](https://kenneth.io/blog/2014/12/28/taking-chrome-devtools-outside-the-browser/) to make sure I'm not reinventing the wheel.
- [ ] Potentially add support for remote debugging over an ssh tunnel to make debugging an app on an arbitrary server easy
To make your global debugger command point to your local code. Run the following from the
debugger source root folder:
ln -s -f $("pwd")/bin/debugger.js /usr/local/bin/debugger
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The npm package debugger receives a total of 73 weekly downloads. As such, debugger popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that debugger demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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