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doc: deprecate debug protocol

Due to changes in V8, the debug protocol will no longer work in Node.js
8.0.0. Note this in the documentation.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10320
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
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Jan Krems 8 years ago
committed by Italo A. Casas
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## Advanced Usage
### TCP-based protocol
> Stability: 0 - Deprecated: Use [V8 Inspector Integration][] instead. The debug protocol used by the `--debug` flag was removed from V8.
An alternative way of enabling and accessing the debugger is to start
Node.js with the `--debug` command-line flag or by signaling an existing
Node.js process with `SIGUSR1`.
@ -179,12 +183,13 @@ process or via URI reference to the listening debugger:
* `node debug <URI>` - Connects to the process via the URI such as
localhost:5858
## V8 Inspector Integration for Node.js
### V8 Inspector Integration for Node.js
**NOTE: This is an experimental feature.**
V8 Inspector integration allows attaching Chrome DevTools to Node.js
instances for debugging and profiling.
It uses the [Chrome Debugging Protocol][].
V8 Inspector can be enabled by passing the `--inspect` flag when starting a
Node.js application. It is also possible to supply a custom port with that flag,
@ -201,4 +206,6 @@ To start debugging, open the following URL in Chrome:
chrome-devtools://devtools/remote/serve_file/@60cd6e859b9f557d2312f5bf532f6aec5f284980/inspector.html?experiments=true&v8only=true&ws=localhost:9229/node
```
[TCP-based protocol]: https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Debugging-Protocol
[Chrome Debugging Protocol]: https://chromedevtools.github.io/debugger-protocol-viewer/
[TCP-based protocol]: #debugger_tcp_based_protocol
[V8 Inspector Integration]: #debugger_v8_inspector_integration_for_node_js

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