being able to enable/disable debug programmatically

Wouldn’t be useful to be able to enable and disable debug mode programmatically from node scripts?

debug.enable()
debug.disable()

[roccomuso]

I don’t know if we mean the same thing. Actually I did something like that:

// enable
process.env.DEBUG = '*'; 
var debug = require('debug')('namespace');
debug('printed');

// disable
delete process.env.DEBUG;
var debug = require('debug')('namespace');
debug('not printed');

[ernie58]

You can work around it like this:

require('debug').enable('myapp:somenamespace'); //enable namespace
debug = require('debug')('myapp:somenamespace'); //reload debug