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

This is what worked for me:

1. Start node-inspector on server.
2. Start debugee on remote server with --debug flag.
3. Note the port that the debugger listens on, i.e. Debugger listening on port DEBUG_PORT message.
4. Create an ssh tunnel for port 8080, not the DEBUG_PORT as Andrey Sidorov's answer suggests.
5. Open SERVER_API:8080/debug?ws=127.0.0.1:8080&port=DEBUG_PORT in browser an voilà.

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