Debugging remote node.js apps

[freak4pc]

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Is it possible debugging a remote Node.JS app instead of a local one ?

[alltom]

Yes. The main challenges are:

1. Theseus connects to localhost by default. There's no preference to change that yet.
2. Theseus expects paths to match pretty much exactly. node-theseus would report full paths from the server and Brackets reports full paths on your local machine. Actually, I have hazy memory of making Theseus check partial paths, but I can't remember atm. :)

I'd love to help get this working, though. The easiest way to test would be for you to use an SSH tunnel to map localhost:8888 (TCP, I believe) on your dev machine to localhost:8888 on your server. Can you try that and see how well that works? May as well invoke node-theseus with --theseus-verbose=2.

[bcoates]

Forwarding 8888 works well enough to be usable, though it looks like the file matching fails in places. A preference to connect to a non-localhost site would be great.

[alltom]

Your +1 has been received. :)

Hmm, yeah, file matching is somewhat hacked-together because there are a lot of cases to deal with (Rails asset conventions, Node.js public/ convention, symlinks, etc).

If you could post some of the paths that aren't getting mapped correctly, I might be able to make couldBeRemotePath() lenient enough to accept them. :)

[matthiasg]

This is indeed the most interesting aspect. We would love to use Theseus to remotely debug server code we develop on the client side.