ignore debugger; statements in Node.js, during debug session

Question

I have a codebase where I have quite a number of

debugger;

statements. Sometimes I debug, and I actually just want to skip all of the debugger; statements and continue only to the manually set breakpoints that I have chosen for the debugging session, is there some setting by chance with Node.js to do that?

In other words, I would like to consider the debugger; statements to be long-term placeholders, but for certain debugging sessions I would like to ignore those long-term placeholders.

Answer 1

That can be done with the chrome devtools.

You can do:

node --inspect --debug-brk index.js

that will generate something like this:

chrome-devtools://devtools/remote/serve_file/@60cd6e859b9f557d2312f5bf532f6aec5f284980/inspector.html?experiments=true&v8only=true&ws=localhost:9229/9c2e4f37-4c3a-4477-b8da-2399c5d9819e

Just copy and paste that on chrome.

There is an option to disable/enable all the break points, and chrome will remember all the breakpoints that you set previously.

Please check: --inspect for more info.