node-inspect

Code that's now part of node, previously `node debug` for `node --inspect`

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Code that's now part of node, previously `node debug` for `node --inspect`

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NoInkling·May 31, 2017

https://github.com/nodejs/node-inspect It's explained there. Basically, `node debug` will still work, they just had to change the command line debugger to support the new protocol, since the old protocol was removed from V8. But unless you really need to debug from the command line, --inspect/--inspect-brk is the way to go. You don't necessarily have to use Chrome either, these days IDE debuggers support this protocol as well.

In Node v8.0.0 Released