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Debugging Fastify Applications with Panic's Nova on Mac and Fastify CLI
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Debugging Fastify Applications with Panic's Nova on Mac and Fastify CLI

The documentation for Panic's Nova 9 for debugging Node (or in general) is atrocious so I'll share how I was able to debug a local node/Fastify application using Fastify CLI. It's actually pretty simple.

Note: This obviously requires having installed Fastify CLI. In my screenshot I am using a copy of Fastify CLI that is local to my application folder, not a global install. If you're using a global Fastify CLI install the path is likely different to the cli.js. For instance with Homebrew on the Mac the path would be likely be /opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/fastify-cli/cli.js.

Note: The folder to your "app.js" might be different. I'm writing my app in TypeScript so it's being compiled to JavaScript in the dist folder.

Here is a screenshot of my setup:

Nova 9 NodeJS debug settings

There are more options that can be passed in to Fastify CLI but it should be a simple matter of adding them to the args list. Note too that you can't edit those once they're in or move them around.

After that it's a simple matter of running the task to start up the app and attach the debugger.

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