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TypeScript Microservices

You're reading from  TypeScript Microservices

Product type Book
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830751
Pages 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Toc

Table of Contents (17) Chapters close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Debunking Microservices 2. Gearing up for the Journey 3. Exploring Reactive Programming 4. Beginning Your Microservice Journey 5. Understanding API Gateway 6. Service Registry and Discovery 7. Service State and Interservice Communication 8. Testing, Debugging, and Documenting 9. Deployment, Logging, and Monitoring 10. Hardening Your Application 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Debugging


Debugging is one of the most important aspects in the development of any system. Debugging, or the art of solving problems, is crucial in software development as it helps us to identify issues, profile the system, and identify the culprits responsible for taking down the system. There are some classic definitions of debugging:

"Debugging is like solving a murder mystery in which you are the murderer. If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then software development is the process of putting these bugs in it"

– Edsgar Dijkstra.

Debugging a TypeScript microservice is very similar to debugging any web application. Going for open source free alternatives, we will go for node-inspector, as it also provides very useful profiling tools.

Note

We already saw debugging through VS Code in Chapter 2Gearing up for the Journey.

In the next section, we will learn how to profile and debug our application using node-inspector. We will look at various aspects of remote debugging and how to build...

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