The DevToolsCompat setting

A while ago I wrote a post about DevTools missing the source tree... So oddly the DevTools versions of late have been missing the source file tree normally found on the left hand side of the debugger under Sources > Page: At the end of that short post I wrote…

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Node’s Governance Similar to Parler Elimination by Big Tech?

TL;DR A Project (my project in fact)... NiM which has been linked from Nodejs.org's site for years, was removed because of (in my opinion) nepotism toward corporations, and a governance model which is currently operating on an uneven playing field. I should add that my intent is in…

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More than "UX sugar"

Node.js V8 --inspector Manager (NiM) "adds some nice UX sugar on top"... of Node.js debugging. That's for sure. However now that the DevTools team has built in a solution for the UUID problem, some have disparaged NiM, out of what I would call ignorance of the…

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Absolute Simplest Node.js Debugging - VSCode/DevTools

In my opinion, debugging Node.js (Node) code hasn't ever been that big of a pain point, largely because of the excellent debugger baked into Node, which has been the case for at least as long as I've been involved with writing software in Node.  Python for me is…

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Inspect Broke My Workflow!

A few months ago I began using the built in Node V8 Inspector in lieu of node-inspector. My personal choice for switching came out of sticking to the path of least resistance, and for me, that entails keeping tooling as minimal as possible. Metaphorically speaking, the prospect of having one…

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