Can't run nodemon with --inspect flag

[Lukasz199312]

In package.json i have this "dev": "nodemon --inspect". and in nodemon.json

{
    "watch": ["src"],
    "ext": ".ts,.js",
    "ignore": [],
    "exec": "ts-node ./bin/www"
  }

with this configuration my server starts without debug mode.

[civts]

I may have had the same problem.
Ts-node has a particular syntax for passing the --inspect argument (link)

Try to:

1. remove --inspect from your "dev": "nodemon --inspect"
2. replace ts-node ./bin/www with node -r ts-node/register --inspect ./bin/www

This should fix the problem.

After that, you may also consider moving ./bin/www in the package.json script, ending up with the following:

• nodemon.json:

  {
    "watch": ["src"],
    "ext": ".ts,.js",
    "ignore": [],
    "exec": "node -r ts-node/register --inspect"
  }

• package.json:

  ...
  "scripts" : {
    "dev": "nodemon ./bin/www"
  }
  ...

[remy]

replace ts-node ./bin/www with node -r ts-node/register --inspect ./bin/www

☝️ this.

Thank you @civts 👍

[bmaupin]

I didn't have a separate nodemon.json folder, so I just appended -r ts-node/register --inspect to the end of my nodemon script in package.json, e.g.

    "dev": "nodemon --watch src src/index.ts -r ts-node/register --inspect",