Remotely debugging my node app that is hosted on AWS

Question

I would like to connect to my node server running in debug mode on AWS (node --debug app.js) from my development machine, and be able to debug my app remotely.

Two quest

Answer 1

Forward remote debugger port with ssh from your dev machine

ssh -L 5858:127.0.0.1:5858 ubuntu@some.ec2.host.com

And now you can start node-inspector as if the debugger is running locally.