Debugging third party installed node module

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Appreciate inputs to debug easily and effectively an already installed third party node module (say mkdirp or expressjs ...)

I looked at node-inspector but looks like it can debug only direct scripts (like node-debug myscript.js).

But for my case, I want to debug the installed module directly when i use it in the terminal. For example, when i run the browserify in the terminal using browserify main.js -o bundle.js, i want to start debugging the browserify module code.

Currently placing console.log statements in the third party code which is very painful.

JSoet · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-13 12:04:36Z

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Obviously an older question, but for anyone else who stumbles across this question, you can debug just by getting node to launch the module directly, so I think you could do something like:

node-debug node_modules/browersify/bin/browserify main.js -o bundle.js

I was personally using vscode trying to debug tslint, and there I created a debug configuration like this:

{
      "type": "node",
      "request": "launch",
      "name": "Launch Program",
      "program": "${workspaceFolder}\\node_modules\\tslint\\bin\\tslint",
      "args": [
        "-c",
        "tslint.json",
        "-p",
        "tsconfig.json"
      ]
    }

answered Jun 13, 2018 at 12:04

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