Output to Chrome console from Node.js

NOTE:Since the old answer (written in september 2014) refers to an older version of node-inspector, my instructions are not relevant anymore in 2017. Also, the documentation has gotten a lot better, so I have updated my original answer:

node-inspector is what you need.It opens up an instance of Chrome with its developer tools for debugging.

It's also easy to use:

1. Install

$ npm install -g node-inspector

2. Start

$ node-debug app.js

Source: https://github.com/node-inspector/node-inspector

You might want to try NodeMonkey - https://github.com/jwarkentin/node-monkey

I know it's an old question but came on top of my Google search so maybe somebody will find my answer useful.

So you can use node --inspect-brk index.js

Now, all you have to do is basically just type chrome://inspect in your Chrome address bar and click Open dedicated DevTools for Node

In DevTools, now connected to Node, you’ll have all the Chrome DevTools features you’re used to:

• Complete breakpoint debugging, stepping w/ blackboxing

• Source maps for transpiled code

• LiveEdit: JavaScript hot-swap evaluation w/ V8

• Console evaluation with ES6 feature/object support and custom object formatting

• Sampling JavaScript profiler w/ flamechart

• Heap snapshot inspection, heap allocation timeline, allocation profiling

• Asynchronous stacks for native promises

Hope that helped.