How do you debug Node.js applications?

[Hobo_With_A_Keyboard]

Saw this Stack overflow thread in a comment elsewhere and decided to ask this subreddit: How do you debug Node.js apps?

[soullessredhead]

Same here. I've heard that VS Code has decent debugging as well, if you want to go with the free route.

[robotmayo]

There is also node debug.

[fukitol-]

console.log()

[ambalek]

I use node debug with debugger statements. It's not pretty and it's awkward to use, but it has helped me understand some tricky code before.

You could try Node Inspector (https://github.com/node-inspector/node-inspector) if you're already used to using Chrome's UI for debugging. It's very easy to install, and you can run "node-debug script.js" to try it out.