Can't run node.js debug from eclipse using chrome devtools

Question

I'm trying to run node.js debug under Ubuntu with Eclipse: 3.7.1, Chromium JS Debugger 0.3 and node.js 4.12 (stable).

I installed and configured debug as described on https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Using-Eclipse-as-Node-Applications-Debugger.

I run my node app with --debug, then I run debug in eclipse, I see it connects to the debug port but then it crashes with message "An internal error occurred during: "Launching Node 5858". java.lang.NullPointerException"

Communication looks like:

Received from Chrome: Type: connect V8-Version: 3.1.8.26 Protocol-Version: 1 Embedding-Host: node v0.4.12 Content-Length: 0

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Sent to Chrome:

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Content-Length:46

{"seq":3,"type":"request","command":"version"}

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Received from Chrome:

Content-Length: 135

{"seq":2,"request_seq":3,"type":"response","command":"version","success":true,"body":{"V8Version":"3.1.8.26"},"refs":[],"running":true}

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Answer 1

I think you should report the problem, since it deals with exception (clearly a bug).

Here's instruction: http://code.google.com/p/chromedevtools/wiki/HowToReportProblem

It also covers how to get the the NullPointerException stacktrace which is probably the most valuable piece of data here.

Answer 2

Use WebStorm(phpStorm) and node.js debug extension