Not printing any debug statements

I’m sure i’m doing something wrong, but I have this code and it’s not printing any debug statement’s

#!/usr/bin/env node

const axios = require('axios')
const program = require('commander')
const debug = require('debug')
const config = require('./config.json')
const getJwt = require('./getJwt.js')
const package = require('./package.json')
const { envs } = require('./util')

program
  .usage('[options]')
  .description('Delete files/data for a specific account')
  .option('-v --version', package.version)
  .option('-e --env <env>', 'Environment to create account for. Options are "dev", "qa", stage", or "prod"')
  .option('-m, --email <required>', 'email')
  .option('-p, --password <required>', 'password')
  .option('-a --all', 'Remove all files and documents')
  .option('-b --debug', 'Enable debug mode')
  .parse(process.argv)

if (program.debug) {
  console.log('in program.debug')
  debug.enable('debug')
}
console.log('debug is enabled =', debug.enabled('debug'))
debug('here') // WHY ISN'T THIS PRINTING?

And here’s the output from my command:

$ ./deleteUserData -e dev -m [e-mail] -p myPassword -a -b
in program.debug
debug is enabled = true

I’m using version 4.1.1 of debug

[TooTallNate]

To create a debug instance that is always enabled, do this:

const debug = require('debug')('my-namespace');

debug.enabled = true;

debug('some stuff');

[Qix-]

No.

A namespace is just a way to group logical sets of logs together. debug gives you the ability to filter out particular namespaces.

How you should be using debug is via the environment variable, not via a flag. This is what it’s for - it’s not necessarily meant to be a logging mechanism.

/* auth.js */
const debug = require('debug')('my-app:auth');
debug('this has something to do with authentication');

/* db.js */
const debug = require('debug')('my-app:db');
debug('this has something to do with the database');

/* index.js */
require('./db');
require('./auth');

$ DEBUG='my-app:*' node ./index.js
my-app:auth    this has something to do with authentication   +0ms
my-app:db      this has something to do with authentication   +0ms

$ DEBUG='my-app:auth' node ./index.js
my-app:auth    this has something to do with authentication   +0ms

etc.