Inspect not working

[andrewjmead]

• nodemon -v: 1.14.2
• node -v: 9.2.0
• Operating system/terminal environment: macOS
• Command you ran: nodemon inspect app.js

Expected behaviour

I was expecting to see the same behavior as seen in v1.12.3 where it open the node inspect as if I ran node inspect app.js:

Here's the command and output from v1.12.3:

Andrew:~/Downloads/t$ nodemon inspect app.js
[nodemon] 1.12.3
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching: *.*
[nodemon] starting `node inspect app.js`
< Debugger listening on ws://127.0.0.1:9229/83b5b113-cf01-4597-97a8-86eb351f91b3
< For help see https://nodejs.org/en/docs/inspector
< Debugger attached.
Break on start in app.js:1
> 1 (function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { let name = 'Andrew'
  2 debugger
  3 console.log(name)

Actual behaviour

The program executes normally and doesn't pause for debugging. Here's the output when using the same command on v1.14.2:

Andrew:~/Downloads/t$ nodemon inspect app.js
[nodemon] 1.14.2
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] watching: *.*
[nodemon] starting `node inspect app.js`
Andrew
[nodemon] clean exit - waiting for changes before restart

Steps to reproduce

Create a simple script like the following and run the command above.

// app.js
let name = 'Andrew'
debugger
console.log(name)

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If applicable, please append the --dump flag on your command and include the output here **ensuring to remove any sensitive/personal details or tokens.

[remy]

You might be the last person using inspect for the REPL based debugger (over using --inspect)!

Can you raise a PR to fix this? I'm pretty sure it's because nodemon uses fork instead of spawn which I think is required to get node inspect … to work.

[remy]

(please note - the PR that's linked to this issue is actually for a completely different issue - I just made a mistake in the commit message and github has linked them together).