Debugging applications
Now that we've prepared ourselves for being able to diagnose issues in production, let's also see the tools available in the Node and hapi ecosystem for debugging applications in our development environment.
Coming from a PHP background which had quite a mature debugger, I always found debugging Node applications a bit more difficult to debug due to JavaScript's asynchronous nature. Fortunately, development tooling is improving around this, with more and more development environments being shipped with integrated Node debugging tools. Let's take a quick look at some of the currently available tools as well as some of the hapi-specific tools for debugging your hapi applications.
The console
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