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Debugging browser process
The devtools of browser window can only debug the scripts of the web pages
(e.g. the renderer process), in order to provide a way to debug the scripts of
the browser side (e.g. the browser process), atom-shell has provided the
--debug and --debug-brk switches.
Command line switches
--debug=[port]
When this switch is used atom-shell would listen for V8 debugger protocol
messages on port, the port is 5858 by default.
--debug-brk=[port]
Like --debug but pauses the script on the first line.
Use node-inspector for debugging
Note: Atom Shell uses node v0.11.13, which currently doesn't work very well
with node-inspector, and the browser process would crash if you inspect the
process object under node-inspector's console.
1. Start the node-inspector server
$ node-inspector
2. Enable debug mode for atom-shell
You can either start atom-shell with a debug flag like:
$ atom-shell --debug=5858 your/app
or, to pause your script on the first line:
$ atom-shell --debug-brk=5858 your/app
3. Load the debugger UI
Open http://127.0.0.1:8080/debug?port=5858 in the Chrome browser.