Adobe Brackets - debugging Node.js & Node-inspector

Question

Quick question: Is it possible to use Adobe Brackets to debug Node.js using Node-inspector. Like be able to step debug in Adobe Brackets?

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Chris

Answer 1

There's a Brackets extension for "Live Development" with Node.js: https://github.com/DennisKehrig/brackets-v8-node-live

And a general JS debugger extension: https://github.com/jdiehl/brackets-debugger

The problem is they don't work together yet: the debugger assumes you're using the usual Live Development mode, which connects to a Chrome browser instance. The authors of those two extensions collaborate frequently, and I believe at one point they were working on making the extensions compatible (see the "v8bridge" branch in the first extension). I think they'd be pretty responsive if you start a thread in the brackets-dev Google Groups forum with this question.

Answer 2

The Theseus project for Brackets is an 'omniscient debugger' that supports inspecting code that's running in Node.