Node Inspector Console - Can't Execute Command, Goes to Newline Instead

Question

I am running node inspector and trying to run commands in the console.

However, I cannot run them. Instead of running, hitting enter goes to a new line.

Using any other console in chrome works fine, just not Inspector's.

Have tried restarting node and inspector. Any ideas how to fix this?

Answer 1

It seems like Chrome v54, v56 are having this issue for both mac and windows. The easiest solutions so far is downgrading your chrome to v51, and I think some one is working on a PR to fix this.

You can download V51 from here http://google-chrome.en.uptodown.com/mac

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Another work around is to use command node --inspect --debug-brk index.js

After running that, goto chrome, open chrome://inspect you will see a page like this

Find the target and click the inspect, a debugger will be attached automatically and everything works from there. Just like it used to be in node-inspect, and the console works!

read this for more information

http://www.mattzeunert.com/2016/06/01/node-v8-inspector-inspect.html