Temporary hack to refresh the node inspector devtools without having to worry about the constantly-changing uuid. Only works in OSX. Use an iTerm2 trigger to run script automatically.

chrome-node-devtools-refresh.sh

#!/bin/bash

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# regex for iterm2:
# chrome-devtools\:\/\/devtools\/remote\/serve\_file\/\@[a-f0-9]*\/inspector\.html\?experiments\=true\&v8only\=true\&ws\=localhost\:9229\/[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[4][0-9a-f]{3}-[89ab][0-9a-f]{3}-[0-9a-f]{12}
#
# command for iterm2:
# /path/to/script/chrome-devtools-refresh.sh "\0" [-h "example.com"]
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usage() { echo "Usage: $0 <devtools_url> [-h <replacement_hostname>]" 1>&2; exit 1; }

url=$1

shift 1

while getopts ":h:" opt; do
  case $opt in
    h)
      replacement=$OPTARG
      url="${url/localhost/$replacement}"
    ;;
    \?)
      echo "Invalid option -$OPTARG"
    ;;
  esac
done

osascript <<EOD
  tell application "Google Chrome"
    set window_list to every window
    set found to false
    repeat with current_window in window_list
      repeat with current_tab in tabs of current_window
        set current_url to get URL of current_tab
        if current_url starts with "chrome-devtools://devtools/remote/serve_file" then
          set URL of current_tab to "$url"
          set found to true
        end if
      end repeat
    end repeat
    if not found then
      set devWindow to make new window
      set URL of last tab in devWindow to "$url"
    end if
    display notification "devtool refreshed"
  end tell
EOD