Remote Debugging w/o V8 Debugger Protocol

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Jan Krems

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Nov 19, 2015, 12:25:12 AM11/19/15
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Hi!

Inspired by a recentish issue on Github[1] I experimented a bit with the
idea of having a Chrome Devtools Protocol implementation for nodejs that
isn't built on top of the V8 debugger protocol.

The result is bugger 2[2]. It's still a bit rough around the edges and the
test coverage is at around 0%. But some of the highlights:

* Integrates into `chrome://inspect`
* Supports `child_process#fork` for worker inspection
* Fully featured repl with require in the console
* Command Line API
* The usual features known from node-inspector, like debugging via source
  panel, network traffic inspection, and profiling tools

The whole thing is highly experimental and contains a fair amount of
"placeholder code". But I thought I'd share it anyhow in case it ends up
being useful to someone.

Cheers,
Jan

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