Debug meteorjs application with node-inspector - debugging

I am trying to debug a meteor application at server side.
I created an environment variable export NODE_OPTIONS='--debug'.
I run meteor (version 0.7.0.1) command. It tells the debugger listening on port 5858.
I start node-inspector (version v0.7.0-2) and point to 127.0.0.1:8080/debug?port=5858, but I can see only a couple of strings, Source, Console and a prompt > where I cannot write anything.
I have this error in the console:
“The connection to ws//127.0.0.1:8080/socket.io/1/websocket/Za… was interrupted while the page was loading”.
The same if I use 0.0.0.0:8080: I can see something more of the debugger on the right panel, as Watch expression, Call stack, but the Source list is still empty.
Node-inspector should be listening, because if I stop meteor says that the remote debugging has been terminated. I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong.

have a look at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/meteor-talk/EG8pe7pF3f8
Just want to share some of my experience on using node-inspector to
debug server side codes:
1. When you run Meteor, it will spawn two processes on Linux machine
(Note: I have not checked this on Windows or Mac machine)
process1: /usr/lib/meteor/bin/node /usr/lib/meteor/app/meteor/
meteor.js
process2: /usr/lib/meteor/bin/node /home/paul/codes/bbtest_code/
bbtest02/.meteor/local/build/main.js --keepalive
You need to send kill -s USR1 on process2
Run node-inspector and you can see your server code
On my first try, I modify the last line on meteor startup script in /
usr/lib/meteor/bin/meteor to
exec "$DEV_BUNDLE/bin/node" $NODE_DEBUG "$METEOR" "$#"
and run NODE_DEBUG=--debug meteor on command prompt. This only put --
debug flag on process1 so I only see meteor files on node-inspector
and could not find my code.
Any suggestion on how to modify the script so we can use "--debug"
flag on the meteor script?
Cheers,
Paul

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Does anyone know a good method to debug server side code?
I tried enable Node.js debug then use node-inspector but it does not show any of my code.
I end up using console.log but this is very inefficient.
Update: I found the following procedure works on my Linux machine:
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process1: /usr/lib/meteor/bin/node /usr/lib/meteor/app/meteor/meteor.js
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meteor debug
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