Setting up and introduction to the Debug tool

- [Instructor] Sometimes you work on your application,…and you'd like to have a better overview…of everything that goes on in the background,…especially for debug purposes.…This is where the debug built-in tool…with Socket.IO comes handy,…and you will get more information than you need.…So, let's take a look at it.…First open your terminal…and make sure you are in this directory,…so the Chatter, the root directory of your project.…Go to View, Integrated Terminal,…or whatever tool you're using.…The first way to start a debug session…is to literally add debug at the beginning…of your npm run start command, and we'll do just that.…

So, Debug, and you want to add =*,…and then npm run start.…And for Windows folks, you will need to use…set DEBUG=*…& npm run start.…So as you can see, it shows you everything…that's happening in the background,…and I can just scroll all the way up…to where we first start this, right here.…So, it's going to say while nodemon is starting,…and it's going to listen to whatever changes in the server.…