Run node.js application in debug with supervisor

Question

I am using supervisor to auto-reload my node.js, e.g.

supervisor -w . app.js

However I can't work out how to get supervisor to run the node.js process in debug, e.g. the equivalent to

node --debug app.coffee

Anyone got any ideas?

Answer 1

This also works (and you don't need a separate bash script):

supervisor -- --debug app.js
supervisor -- --debug=7070 app.js

Answer 2

This solution will work for *nix:

Go to /usr/local/bin or any other directory in your $PATH

$ cd /usr/local/bin

Create an executable script (say, node-debug) with the following contents

#!/bin/bash
node --debug $@

To make it executable:

$ sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/bin/node-debug

Now you can run supervisor like this:

$ supervisor -x node-debug script.js

P.S.: To round it up:

su
echo '#!/bin/bash
node --debug $@' > /usr/local/bin/node-debug
chmod 777 /usr/local/bin/node-debug