Please don’t be offended by the explicit commands, I know you know them already, but my dad doesn’t :)

• download and install chrome
  1. https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

• sudo apt-get install git-core g++ libssl-dev autoconf

• create a source directory
  1. mkdir ~/code
  2. cd ~/code

• download node
  1. git clone https://github.com/ry/node.git
  2. git checkout v0.3.0; (or latest stable branch)
  3. cd node
  4. ./configure
  5. make
  6. make install
  7. cd ..

• download node-inspector
  1. git clone https://github.com/dannycoates/node-inspector.git
  2. cd node-inspector
  3. npm install
  4. node bin/inspector.js &
  5. node —debug test/hello.js

• OR if you are familiar with npm. sudo npm install node-inspector
  node-inspector &
  node —debug path/to/yourprogram.js

• browse to https://127.0.0.1:8080/debug?port=5858 in chrome

• if you can’t get javascript source to pop up, send me an email
  1. git log -1