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A lightweight JavaScript debugging utility, forked from debug, featuring TypeScript and ESM support.
A lightweight JavaScript debugging utility, forked from debug, featuring TypeScript and ESM support.
debugnpm install obug
Please refer to the original debug package for usage instructions.
As obug is a fork of debug, we would like to acknowledge the original authors:
MIT License © 2025-PRESENT Kevin Deng
The MIT License Copyright (c) 2014-2017 TJ Holowaychuk <tj@vision-media.ca>
The MIT License Copyright (c) 2018-2021 Josh Junon
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A lightweight JavaScript debugging utility, forked from debug, featuring TypeScript and ESM support.
The npm package obug receives a total of 35,326,448 weekly downloads. As such, obug popularity was classified as popular.
We found that obug demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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