Hi folks, I struggle to get decent error messages while writing a custom node (searched the forum and internet, not much to find, so I come up with this topic! o) If I enter some garbage lines of code like this: module.exports = function(RED) { "use strict"; some garbage / # _ {}; ... All…

Steve-Mcl 29 March 2020 18:53 8

I use VSCode (as do the Devs of node-red - I think)

Yes you can debug step your server side code.

For client side, put debugger statements in your code and open dev tools F12.

See this...

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How to get errors/exceptions while developing custom node?

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