Debugging protractor

Question

I want to use node debug to step through a gulp task.

I have tried the following:

node debug $(which gulp) protractor --specs=foo/foo-spec.js

But I get the following error:

< debugger listening on port 5858
connecting... ok
< c:\nodejs\node0.10.37-npm1.4.16-bower1.3.50-gruntcli0.1.13\gulp:2
< basedir=`dirname "$0"`
<         ^
< SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
<     at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)

Can anyone help me understand why I might be seeing this error?

I am using git bash on Windows 7.

Simon · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-11 10:32:07Z

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You are using node 0.10.x and your script contains a template string, which is a new ES6 feature. I believe node 0.10.x requires the --harmony flag to enable template strings (not sure about node 0.12.x, but io.js has this enabled by default).

Although, your question seems to suggest that you have this problem only with node debug, but not without debug? If so that would be really strange and I'd except it to fail in both scenarios.

answered Aug 11, 2015 at 10:32

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