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JavaScript

Eduardo Diaz
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Eduardo Diaz
Courses Plus Student 6,048 Points

debugging node js applications using firefox?

Does anyone know if there is a way to debug node js applications on firefox?

I'm currently using the command
node --inspect-brk ./node_modules/bin/_mocha

to debug some tests, I'm aware I can use Chrome Developer Tools, but I was just wondering if there is a way to do this with Firefox or Safari ?

Zack Lee
Zack Lee
Courses Plus Student 17,662 Points

firefox has a devtools as well which can be opened with the same command as chrome devtools...is that what you're asking?

Eduardo Diaz
Eduardo Diaz
Courses Plus Student 6,048 Points

Not exactly, cause i can open the Firefox debugger i can't see the option to debug the node js app

Eduardo Diaz
Eduardo Diaz
Courses Plus Student 6,048 Points

the issue is not so much as to open the debugger but to setting it up to debug the app. When you run this command on your project you can just go to chrome and go into the url chrome://inspect and under the localhost you'll see your node js app running so that you can debug. However I can't find how to choose my app to debug using firefox