debug-wise args are not honored

• nodemon -v: 1.14.12
• node -v: 8.9.4
• ts-node -v: 4.1.0
• Operating system/terminal environment: Windows 10 x64
• Command you ran:

nodemon with the following nodemon.json:

{
    "verbose": true,
    "watch": [
        "src"
    ],
    "ext": "ts",
    "exec": "{{pwd}}/node_modules/.bin/ts-node ./src/index.ts --project ./tsconfig.development.json --inspect=5858 --inspect-brk"
}

Expected behaviour

--inspect=5858 --inspect-brk are passed to node and one can connect with debugger

Actual behaviour

--inspect=5858 --inspect-brk are not passed to node and one can’t connect with debugger

terminal output:

[nodemon] 1.14.12
[nodemon] reading config .\nodemon.json
[nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
[nodemon] or send SIGHUP to 22156 to restart
[nodemon] watching: C:\Dev\node-typescript-vscode\src/**/*
[nodemon] watching extensions: ts
[nodemon] starting `C:\Dev\node-typescript-vscode/node_modules/.bin/ts-node ./src/index.ts --project ./tsconfig.development.json --inspect=5858 --inspect-brk`
[nodemon] spawning
[nodemon] child pid: 11272
[nodemon] watching 2 files

Steps to reproduce

1. clone https://github.com/deilan-issues-samples/ts-node-issue-531
2. yarn install or npm install
3. yarn run serve:debug or npm run serve:debug
4. launch Attach to nodemon VS Code debug configuration

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[blakeembrey]

Closing with https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node/pull/536. I recommend node -r ts-node/register for all advanced node.js use-cases and flags.

[iangregsondev]

Ok, I think i have a workaround

You can execute it like this

node --inspect-brk=5858 --require ts-node/register ./src/index.ts

so you can create your nodemon.json file and do this, (create multiple nodemon.json files if you like - I have 1 for inspect and 1 for inspect-brk)

{
  "watch": ["src"],
  "ext": "ts",
  "ignore": ["src/**/*.spec.ts"],
  "exec": "node --inspect-brk=5858 --require ts-node/register ./src/index.ts"
}

Hope that helps.

So this trick here is not to run ts-node direct but to load via node.