Streamlining node-inspector on Mac OS X (Debugging, NodeJS, Node Inspector, Javascript, Mac)

gistfile1.txt

#!/bin/bash

_TCP_PORT=`jot -r 1 10000 65000`
while :
do
    # Check to see if this port is allocated
    lsof -i 4TCP:$_TCP_PORT || break
    _TCP_PORT=`jot -r 1 10000 65000`
done
node-inspector --web-port=$_TCP_PORT &
python -c "import webbrowser ; webbrowser.open('http://localhost:$_TCP_PORT/debug?port=5858')"
node --debug-brk $@

# I recommend putting this in your ~ or ~/scripts directory (however you organize your homedir) and aliasing it a la
# alias inspect="~/inspect.sh $@"
# Then you can run commands like this:
# inspect server.js --arg1 --arg2